Jamie Zawinski, on Thu 31 Mar 2016 21:24:11 -0700, wrote: > In the time it took me to read your whine, you could have upgraded your > incredibly-out-of-date computer and saved us all the grief.
Incredibly-out-of-date? I have hit the same exact bug this morning, while installing Debian Jessie, which is the latest Debian stable release. It comes with version 5.30 of xscreensaver, which was released in september 2014, not even 2 years ago... If you consider 2 years "incredibly-out of date", then do not follow Debian bugs, since Debian is released about every 2 years... As said in another mail in the thread, Debian users are supposed to report bugs to the Debian BTS, to save you the old-bug reports. Then it's up to Debian to backport whatever fix is needed if it feels to, without upstream being involved at all. The current check in the source code is 18 months, perhaps Debian could patch it to raise it to 30 months, to cover the stable freeze+release period? Samuel
