On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:37:26 -0700 Jamie Zawinski <j...@jwz.org> wrote: > Well, > > 5.36 was released on 11 Oct 2016, which, as of the date of this bug report, > was 1 year and 3 days old. > > 5.37, which contains webcollage updates, was released on 5 July 2017. > > The latency with which distros package it up for you is entirely out of my > hands. > Then perhaps for MAJOR Distros on Distrowatch, possibly the top 5 or so.. (the top TWO would catch Debian) you might consider packaging xscreensaver up for yourself in the latest incarnation, so that users of THOSE can install the latest version without having to bother you or compile it themselves. Just a thought. When I can afford a new hard drive for the newer hardware I have on hand ( which has a faulty one, which I can't swap the PATA one from the box I reported this from to a SATA one (incompatible interfaces and wrong form factor)) compiling from source will be less of an issue.
I'm not averse to going "Off the reservation" and installing .debs from sources outside the "official" repos if suitable packages are available, and I have done so, adding an entire repo, in order to get Debian running a graphical environment without systemd, which bogs this old box down (I'm guessing by too much parallelism for it) but I guess doing so would remove your excuse to bitch about Debian. A distro who's philosophy you clearly dislike. Alternately and for less effort, switch your licence to something Debian don't like and force them to either drop or fork the project. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL v2<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL%20v2> licence winds them up and is "unacceptable" *to them* even though the Free Software Foundation found it compatible. Then you can ignore Debian users like me completely. Sadly Distrowatch is incapable of allowing a search for distros based on the version of xscreensaver, but I suspect FEW are on the latest version... Seriously you need to chill out and let the DEBIAN maintainers WHO I ADDRESSED in the first instance handle this rather than getting wound up! I see the latest version in OUR maintainer's git, so I'm guessing it won't be all that long finding its way to testing.. which is where I am. Your blood pressure will lower if you quit watching the Debian BTS.
