Differential D55381

lpr: Add deprecation notice
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Authored by des on Feb 19 2026, 5:57 PM.

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rGd57dee7ab66f: lpr: Add deprecation notice

Summary

These programs require elevated privileges to work and have not seen
regular maintenance in decades. Unless someone steps up and overhauls
them, we will have to remove them before 16.0. Drop-in replacements are
available in ports (print/cups, sysutils/LPRng).

MFC after: 3 days

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des created this revision.Feb 19 2026, 5:57 PM

Herald added subscribers: ziaee, imp. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 19 2026, 5:57 PM

des requested review of this revision.Feb 19 2026, 5:57 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B70790: Diff 172266.Feb 19 2026, 5:57 PM

des added a child revision: D55380: build: Disable lpr and friends.Feb 19 2026, 5:57 PM

emaste accepted this revision as: emaste.Feb 19 2026, 6:10 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 19 2026, 6:10 PM

What's the rationale for this removal? Shall the user not be able to print?

garga added a subscriber: garga.Feb 19 2026, 6:51 PM

In D55381#1266727, @fuz wrote:

What's the rationale for this removal? Shall the user not be able to print?

It's unmaintained and full of bugs, use CUPS instead.

des edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Feb 19 2026, 8:22 PM

des edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Feb 21 2026, 1:37 AM

markj accepted this revision as: markj.Feb 21 2026, 3:20 AM

des closed this revision.Feb 21 2026, 9:40 PM

des added a commit: rGd57dee7ab66f: lpr: Add deprecation notice.

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usr.sbin/

lpr/

chkprintcap/

3 lines

lp/

3 lines

lpc/

3 lines

lpd/

3 lines

lpq/

3 lines

lpr/

3 lines

3 lines

lprm/

3 lines

lptest/

3 lines

pac/

3 lines

Diff 172266

usr.sbin/lpr/chkprintcap/chkprintcap.8

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usr.sbin/lpr/lp/lp.1

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usr.sbin/lpr/lpc/lpc.8

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usr.sbin/lpr/lpd/lpd.8

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usr.sbin/lpr/lpq/lpq.1

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usr.sbin/lpr/lpr/lpr.1

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usr.sbin/lpr/lpr/printcap.5

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usr.sbin/lpr/lprm/lprm.1

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usr.sbin/lpr/lptest/lptest.1

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usr.sbin/lpr/pac/pac.8

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