https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c Jean Delvare changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- URL| |http://www.linuxquestions.o | |rg/questions/slackware-14/e | |rror-message-when-starting- | |desktop-jwz-screensaver-pac | |kage-too-old-4175512984/#po | |st5213278 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c2 James Carter changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jimc@math.ucla.edu --- Comment #2 from James Carter 2014-08-07 05:03:18 UTC --- Cross reference to: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/error-message-when-star... Their user ljb643 says, it has a 12 month trigger. 5.29 is the latest version. Jamie Zawicki (author) put a comment in the code where it does the 12 month test: "Getting very tired of bug reports of already fixed bugs due to Linux distros shipping multi year old versions." You'll get a laugh out of how the Slackware people dealt with the problem. I agree that 1 year is too short, and a 2 year life fits a lot better into the SuSE release cycle; nonetheless Jamie Zawicki has a good point and it would be a nice cooperative move to do as he asks and update to 5.29. One of the Slackware people says the upgrade is clean. The SuSE Build Service has three packages of xscreensaver-5.29, and I've just downloaded and will install the one from home:openSUSE_user1 (because it has both i586 and x86_64, and I need to support both architectures). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c4 --- Comment #4 from James Carter 2014-08-09 06:09:47 UTC --- Sorry, I misspelled the author's name: it's Jamie Zawinski. I installed xscreensaver-5.29-2.2 from Tumbleweed. There were no dependent packages that needed replacement. The program works normally for me. No nag screen until Summer 2015 :-( People annoyed by the nag screen could deal with it in this way. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c6 Guido Berhörster changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |gber@opensuse.org --- Comment #6 from Guido Berhörster 2014-08-15 18:27:02 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5)

There are three basic ways to deal with it: 1) Each distro cycle will have 1 to 2 version updates. (Not applicable for enterprise distros.)

I see no point in this, it is not our maintenance policy to arbitrarily upgrade packages to a newer upstream releases, rather we usually maintain the packages backporting bugfixes and security updates as necessary with only few exceptional cases. Bugs should also usually filed here first rather than directly upstream.

2) Patch it and modify the message to sync with the life cycle of openSUSE cycle.

Doesn't make sense to nag users about something they cannot fix anyway, it's our package and responsibility.

3) Disable the message at all.

That seems to be the only sensible choice, I've sr'd a patch. If accepted I can take care of a maintenance update as well. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c8 --- Comment #8 from Bernhard Wiedemann 2014-08-27 13:00:18 CEST --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (890595) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/246613 13.1 / xscreensaver -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c10 --- Comment #10 from Guido Berhörster 2014-09-01 17:12:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9)

Created an attachment (id=604475) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=604475) [details] xscreensaver-disable-upgrade-nagging-message.patch

I just prepared a bit larger patch, that completely removes all the code around.

It is cleaner, as it does not keep unused code, but it is larger and easier to break by update. (But I don't think that this code will be changed frequently.)

What do you think about it?

Since we will never be able to upstream this patch I personally prefer potentially less patch maintenance over cleanliness. But it's just a matter of preference, so feel free to revise the patch. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890595#c13 --- Comment #13 from Jean Delvare 2014-09-03 07:39:06 UTC --- Thanks Guido for taking care of this, this is appreciated. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.