On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 19:09 +0100, [email protected] 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

