From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Aug 29 19:58:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8847C9C524A; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 19:58:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail.madpilot.net (grunt.madpilot.net [78.47.145.38]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 417BB9F7; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 19:58:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mad@madpilot.net) Received: from mail (mail [192.168.254.3]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3n3T9g5tNLzZvM; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:57:59 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=madpilot.net; h= content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:in-reply-to :mime-version:user-agent:date:date:message-id:from:from :references:subject:subject:received:received; s=mail; t= 1440878277; x=1442692678; bh=8miwMObkNqdxiZUd5/8/eUEL5notIjaptEj no97zHl4=; b=QI5rBK8RfXn0GbUCohD8SaiVCfE0YVoWfpyaOGe9bMEhiez9Ryd 9leIXCLwP56Ax7wJEs9l6FO8X436DP2Z0lH3BSzQc0F7vOt24ft/bTt+n4VbGXDs jTag5fJsI5COx8t2S3GyP5gc598ab2PKrZZKLLjmDqcJkVPKDMXv6rFc= Received: from mail.madpilot.net ([192.168.254.3]) by mail (mail.madpilot.net [192.168.254.3]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MGD06L3-3fpH; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tommy.madpilot.net (micro.madpilot.net [88.149.173.206]) by mail.madpilot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:57:57 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Old screensaver To: "William A. Mahaffey III" , FreeBSD Questions !!!! , FreeBSD X11 mailing list References: <55E2095A.5090901@hiwaay.net> From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: <55E20EC5.60200@madpilot.net> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 21:57:57 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <55E2095A.5090901@hiwaay.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 19:58:09 -0000 On 08/29/15 21:33, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > Whenever I mess around w/ the screensaver on my FreeBSD 9.3R-p21 desktop > (XFCE 4.12_1, last upgraded last week), it puts up a warning window > whining about how old my screensaver is & telling me my distro is doing > me a disservice for shipping such old software. I am of course not > buying it, but am curious why that bit of software apparently hasn't > been upgraded in a while (long enough for it or something else to whine > about it). It is version 5.29 of xscreensaver, says it is dated Jun > 2014, which I don't consider to be terribly old, but apparently newer is > available. *Not* a big issue, but curious, any input from wiser heads ? > TIA & have a good one. > This issue has been reported in bug 201254: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201254 -- Guido Falsi