Ubuntu
xscreensaver package

  1. Bug #1406825
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1406825

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Herwin Weststrate (debian-1) wrote :

This feature appears to be added because the author was getting tired of bug reports for already fixes bugs, the following is on top of the function that checks if it is too old:

> Getting very tired of bug reports of already-fixed bugs due to
> Linux distros shipping multi-year-old versions.

So basically the problems have shifted from the author to the packagers/maintainers of distros. To me, that sounds like a pretty terrible idea.