Subject: bug#267 closed by Mark Hindley <[email-masked]> (Re: bug#267: Xsnow is heavily outdated (broken).)

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:40:03 +0000

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#267: Xsnow is heavily outdated (broken).

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Subject: Re: bug#267: Xsnow is heavily outdated (broken).
From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
To: Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:37:57 +0000

Control: tag -1 debian

The Debian versions of xsnow have been updated:

xsnow      | 1:3.1.1-1     | stable                   | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
xsnow      | 1:3.6.0-1     | testing                  | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
xsnow      | 1:3.6.0-1     | unstable                 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, i386, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
xsnow      | 1:3.6.0-1     | unstable-debug           | source

Closing.

Mark

Subject: Xsnow is heavily outdated (broken).
From: Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2018 18:07:09 +0200

Package: xsnow.
Version: 1:1.42-9.

Xsnow last version is 17yo. and last maintenance one is 6yo.
Even it's homepage, is dead.
Not surprisingly, it is nowhere near to be in state to run in a modern Linux.

I read the KDE Debian instructions and they are for...KDE3!!!
Just out of curiosity, I installed Trinity and tried again.
It runs, but it's definitely buggy.

On ASCII x64.