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It is rebased every 6 months, and those applications that do not follow semantic versioning can get an exception so they get full updates, to avoid the xscreensaver situation that Debian had.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...

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Wow that author is really bitter. Custom URL redirect if your traffic comes from HN.

Oh it's dna lounge person. I don't know anything else about how they behave, though.

Oh woops, I forgot about the HN redirect.

Hopefully you were able to just paste the link and try again. Basically they had so much noise from Debian users who were running an old version of xscreensaver where the bugs were fixed 4-5 years ago, but Debian decided not to update it.

I would be bitter if Debian treated me like that.

Yes I was, thanks for asking. I think debian does have an issue with absentee maintainers but I am not familiar with how to "do a maintainer's work for them temporarily" when a fix is badly needed.

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