On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:18:29 -0700 Jamie Zawinski <j...@jwz.org> wrote: > Here's an idea, try running a version of xscreensaver that is not over a year > old. > > Yes, you have made the mistake of using Debian. I realize that they go out of > their way to make that difficult for you. My sympathies.
> I might also add that on my other box, running Gentoo, which most consider pretty cutting-edge and up to date (being a rolling distro) EVEN THERE I had to UNMASK a version marked unstable to fix this.. and it's not like I'm running Jessie.. the version in Buster is LESS than a year old.. and NO NEWER version in SID for me to even attempt back-porting. Your beef Mr. JWZ is with Debian STABLE which is NOT what I'm running!
