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

[Nicolas George <george@nsup.org>]

Vincent Lefevre (HE12025-10-30):
> It is annoying that Debian ships very old software.

Debian does not ship anything.

> For instance:
> 
>   * rplay, with the latest changes in 1999 and potential
>     security issues:
>       https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1118224

These are not security issues.

>   * 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

Good, locales suck.

Anyway, there is a trick to not be impacted by old package in Debian: do
not install them.

But shush, it is a secret known only to experts and we want to keep it
that way.

Regards,

-- 
  Nicolas George