Hi, Eli the Bearded wrote: > Like it or not, JWZ considers xscreensaver to be frontline system > security. If it doesn't LOCK YOUR SCREEN, it's broken. If you don't > want to track the security updates, you are (in his mind) harming users.
You seem not aware that Debian _tracks_ security updates in stable. Just not features. We backport security fixes to the current version in stable. See e.g. https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xscreensaver/news/20160112T063226Z.html for the last security update in Jessie (i.e. the aforementioned version) and see https://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xscreensaver.html for the remaining security updates in oldstable and oldoldstable (no more supported now). > That is why he specifically suggests Gnome's screensaver: it's a as > hardened as a luggage lock. And once again: GNOME Screensaver is not alternative to xscreensaver as it lacks features and pulls in a lot of GNOME stuff which is unwanted for other desktop environments. > At least, that's how I think you'll satisfy JWZ. We should satisfy our users. And their demand is obvious. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
