On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:29:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 11:15, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > > > I have a simple question: > > Why xv is not any more supported by Debian? > > I have a simple answer: > Because it's shareware. See http://www.trilon.com/xv/pricing.html for > details. The fact that it's shareware has nothing to do with it. Or are you one of the less-than-clued who thinks you can't pay for software? Debian no longer distributes xv because the license says you can't distribute modified versions, which fails the DFSG. Not that you can't build it yourself... you can find the Potato source package (which was -26) several places on the 'net, and build it locally. It needs fixing... it wasn't being maintained very well and several of the patches it needs don't apply correctly. It's also several official "John Bradley" security patches behind. Random debs you find usually won't install in unstable as unstable no longer has an xlibs6g package. > Basically, there are any number of functionality identical programs (ie > 'display' from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through the normal > Debian channels. There are very few image viewers that do everything xv does, all rolled into one binary. I wish all software stood the test of time as well as xv has. -- Marc Wilson | The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the msw@cox.net | travellers pay the expense of it. -- Josh Billings
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