Substitute for 'xv' image viewer?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 08:41:37AM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:53:21 +0200, Duncan Anderson
> <duncangareth at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > IMHO, there is NO substitute for xv. Why don't you just compile it for
> > yourself? Or, failing that, surely someone has produced a ".deb" version.
> 
> be aware that any version of xv you find (especially an older .deb
> package) most probably contains security vulnerabilities.  For
> example:
> 
> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/372345/2004-08-15/2004-08-21/0
> 
> 
> Old deb packages can be found around the net.  Here is one that showed
> up in a google search:
> http://ftp.fifi.org/debian-local/woody/unofficial/xv/

This is precisely why it isn't distributed anymore (since xv isn't open
source, things like this could not be fixed).

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 - mdz