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

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 19:09 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

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.

I have xdvi-motif.bin but it's a 32-bit app and Debian no longer provides libXp.so.6 so I can't run it.

  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