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		mattl 12 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with l... I love Debian but the version of xscreensaver was old and if there were security issues unpatched and getting the blame sent to jwz, that’s not right.

layer8 12 months ago [–]

This wasn’t about security issues. Security fixes are regularly applied to Debian stable releases, and have been in the case of xscreensaver.

mattl 12 months ago | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43046053 seems to suggest otherwise.

I vaguely remember this happening but I’d need to check.

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