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Re:“This version of XScreenSaver is very old. Please upgrade” by dfc on Sunday April 03, 2016 @03:21PM (#11417238)
Correct racket version 6.3 is 6 months old. But 6.4 came out two months ago, that seems to be the relevant age statistic. That seems a little disingenuous of you?

The software distribution and management scheme you are advocating for sounds like a security nightmare. Administrators are already bad enough with applying vendor updates. Can you imagine what things would be like if administrators had to track all of the different upstream security announcements for everything they installed?

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Re:“This version of XScreenSaver is very old. Please upgrade” by jarcane on Sunday April 03, 2016 @05:06PM (#11417734)
1) No, it's not disingenuous, those are the package versions included in the present Debian branches. Yes, 6.4 is two months old. So why the fuck is it still not even included in unstable, and why do I need a PPA for it on Ubuntu?

2) I am describing how literally every other major OS works. That is how Windows works. That is how OS X works. There is nothing impractical or intractable about this problem. Mainstream software has been solving it for decades.

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