[Bug 1406825] Re: xscreensaver complains "This version of xscreensaver is VERY OLD!"

[Charlie Whitman Jr.]

Firas, you seem to be under the misimpression that you need the latest
version to avoid this warning message. That is not true at all. You only
need a version that is not quite old. The version that you get in 14.10
was not the current version of Xscreensaver (or even close to it) when
14.10 was frozen. Of course, the real problem here is that whoever
volunteers to package this for universe did not update it any time
recently. It's hard to complain about volunteer work, but the fact
remains that the age of the package unnecessarily created a problem even
for non-LTS users (for LTS users, the age of the package would be
understandable).

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Title:
  xscreensaver complains "This version of xscreensaver is VERY OLD!"

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Early minutes of year 2015 and the xscreensaver complains that "This
  version of xscreensaver is VERY OLD!" in this dialog:
  http://i.imgur.com/VUCQfun.png?1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: xscreensaver 5.26-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-lowlatency 3.16.7-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Jan  1 00:44:38 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-13 (1144 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: xscreensaver
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (67 days ago)

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