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. > > * 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). >
