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

[Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com>]

On 10/30/25 10:29 AM, 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. Yeah, okular and evince can read dvi files, but they lack some features like rulers.

yep, I really miss fslint

none of the alternatives work as well as fslint did
https://github.com/pixelb/fslint/issues/173

  * 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).