It has been another 5 months with no response.
I am once again *begging* you to stop making it possible to install only *part*
of XScreenSaver. It causes a constant stream of problems for no benefit.
Please, please, please, install the dependencies so that installing any part of
XScreenSaver
You could solve this problem with a one-line change: simply make "xscreensaver"
depend upon "xscreensaver-data", "xscreensaver-data-extra", "xscreensaver-gl",
"xscreensaver-gl-extra", "xscreensaver-screensaver-bsod" and
"xscreensaver-screensaver-webcollage".
I can see the argument for allowing
On Oct 13, 2021, at 4:36 AM, Tormod Volden wrote:
>
> I was obviously talking about what to do in the Debian package, not
> upstream.
So was I.
I was discussing *your* decisions that make *my* program malfunction for *my*
users, and cause more work for *me*, the author and maintainer.
> I
Please behave when using the Debian forums.
I was obviously talking about what to do in the Debian package, not
upstream. I think it makes sense for us to not blindly pick whatever
is in the user's PATH. And we will eventually get to reunifying the
packages, it is a bit more work though due to
On Oct 12, 2021, at 4:53 AM, Tormod Volden wrote:
>
> I agree to "xscreensaver SHOULD search for screensavers only in
> /usr/lib/xscreensaver,
Well, you're wrong, and I'm not going to do that.
The fix is *simple and obvious*, make there be ONE xscreensaver installer
package instead of FIVE --
I agree to "xscreensaver SHOULD search for screensavers only in
/usr/lib/xscreensaver, where other packages are expected to install
them", with the exception to allow users to specify a full path in
their xscreensaver config, in case they want to use something
installed elsewhere. There were
On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 00:35:18 +0300 Dmitry Semyonov wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 2020 13:46:02 +0100 Andrew Gallagher wrote:
>
> > Beware for example that `zoom` is the name of a known screensaver. I am
> > glad that I do not have xscreensaver and zoom.us installed on the same
> > machine. :-)
>
>
On Wed, 20 May 2020 13:46:02 +0100 Andrew Gallagher wrote:
> Beware for example that `zoom` is the name of a known screensaver. I am glad
> that I do not have xscreensaver and zoom.us installed on the same machine. :-)
Well, my kid does, and since he didn't notice the XScreenSaver error
about
Thanks for the report, this has been discussed in bug #816722 as well.
Tormod
Package: xscreensaver
Version: 5.42+dfsg1-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Ever since I installed the magic-wormhole package, I have noticed that
xscreensaver occasionally throws an error on the screen as follows:
```
Usage: wormhole [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Try "wormhole --help" for
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