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>X2... The author of xscreensaver became so upset by similar circumstances that he threw down a gauntlet; ship the ancient package with an updated splash scree
by bharrison 9y ago
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The author of xscreensaver became so upset by similar circumstances that he threw down a gauntlet; ship the ancient package with an updated splash screen warning users of how old it is, or stop shipping it.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...
- digi_owl 9y agoThe real problem there was that Debian left the splash screen in place, complete with the email of the author. Thus people would contact him directly rather than Debian when an issue was noticed. Then again JWZ is quite the character...