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
