On 2025-10-30 19:33:59 +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Vincent Lefevre (HE12025-10-30): > > 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.
How can you be so sure? > > * 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. That's your opinion, but almost all software honors locales. > Anyway, there is a trick to not be impacted by old package in Debian: do > not install them. That's impossible when there is a dependency. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
