Re: Debian ships very old software (rplay, paps)
Am Donnerstag, den 30. Oktober schrieb Van Snyder:
> 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.
xdvi is in texlive-binaries
> Yeah, okular and evince can read dvi files, but they lack some features
> like rulers.
>
> >
> > * rplay, with the latest changes in 1999 and potential
> > security issues:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118224
> >
> > * paps 0.6.8, while 2 new major versions have been available
> > (the current version is 0.8.0). So, in Debian, paps still
> > does not honor locales:
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759331
> > (a bug I had reported 11 years ago, with a patch, and
> > which was fixed upstream 10 years ago).
> >
MfG
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