At Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:29:21 -0700 Van Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 17:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > It is annoying that Debian ships very old software. > > For instance: > > I wish they WOULD ship some "very old" software. I like xv and xdvi. > Yeah, okular and evince can read dvi files, but they lack some features > like rulers. I have been building xv from sources without any problems. I have not had any reason to use xdvi. pdflatex => xpdf do what I need to do. > > > > > ÃÂ * rplay, with the latest changes in 1999 and potential > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ security issues: > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug18224 > > > > ÃÂ * paps 0.6.8, while 2 new major versions have been available > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ (the current version is 0.8.0). So, in Debian, paps still > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ does not honor locales: > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bugu9331 > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ (a bug I had reported 11 years ago, with a patch, and > > ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ which was fixed upstream 10 years ago). > > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
