Upstream is adamant that he gets bug reports (and all bug reports are security bug reports, especially on security software) against the version included with Debian, which have since been fixed.
Debian applies changed *all the time* to "stable" packages. The alternative proposal is to apply changes to "stable" software. Some ideal universe xscreensaver might maintain an active version and a version for Debian. They don't, and aren't unique in their indifference to the stated policies. If you don't change things, fine, don't change things including the feature warning that the software is obsolete. If you do change things, then backport security fixes, however hard that may be. The laziest possible option is to remove the legitimate warning that the software is obsolete. On Apr 3, 2016 15:21, "Axel Beckert" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Jeff Warnica wrote: > > There is the third option of "actually back port fixes and thus honestly > be > > able to remove the obsolete software warning" which should be > investigated. > > Nope, that's _not_ an option for Debian Stable. Please read > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1.3 > > > Just selecting a random version and never changing it may quality as > > "stable", > > That's the point. > > > but that isn't "useful". > > It's as useful as on the first day where the Debian Stable release has > been released. New features will very likely introduce bugs and bugs > reduce usability usually more than missing new features. > > 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 >
