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Re: Debian ships very old software (rplay, paps)



On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:29:21AM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 17:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > It is annoying that Debian ships very old software.
> > For instance:
> 
> I wish they WOULD ship some "very old" software. I like xv and xdvi.

  tomas@caliban:~$ apt-file search /usr/bin/xdvi
  texlive-binaries: /usr/bin/xdvi           

So xdvi is still alive and well. As to xv...

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software)

seems to suggest that upstream isn't (very) active these days. You might
like to pick that up?

Cheers
-- 
t

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