On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 14:10 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:29:21 -0700 Van Snyder > <[email protected]> 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. > > Yeah, okular and evince can read dvi files, but they lack some > > features > > like rulers. > > I have been building xv from sources without any problems. I have > not had any > reason to use xdvi. pdflatex => xpdf do what I need to do.
I just now did it. I hadn't been aware of its github. I had an old 32- bit binary that I kept using. I have other 32-bit codes I can't run because Debian no linger includes libXp. > > > > > > > > > * rplay, with the latest changes in 1999 and potential > > > security issues: > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug18224 > > > > > > * 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?bugu9331 > > > (a bug I had reported 11 years ago, with a patch, and > > > which was fixed upstream 10 years ago). > > > > > > > >
