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["Daniel Richard G." <skunk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I will point out that the postgresql package is part of Ubuntu main,
whereas xscreensaver is in Ubuntu universe. The distinctions between
these components of the repository are described at

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Universe is "Community maintained software, i.e. not officially
supported software. " In practice, what this usually means is that
Ubuntu doesn't touch the software; they just pull whatever Debian has
from time to time. (Firas, this is why an Ubuntu patch to remove the
warning is not likely.)

As it happens, Debian testing/jessie does have a newer version of
xscreensaver (5.30-1+b1 versus Ubuntu's 5.26-1ubuntu3). So that could be
brought in, and would squelch the warning for a time longer.

I'm afraid I don't actually know who has to be nudged to make this
happen, however. The package does list "Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-
discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>" as the maintainer, so if any of you are
regulars on that list, bringing it up there may lead to some action. But
that's just my best guess.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1406825

Title:
  xscreensaver complains "This version of xscreensaver is VERY OLD!"

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  Confirmed
Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Early minutes of year 2015 and the xscreensaver complains that "This
  version of xscreensaver is VERY OLD!" in this dialog:
  http://i.imgur.com/VUCQfun.png?1

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: xscreensaver 5.26-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-lowlatency 3.16.7-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-lowlatency x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: XFCE
  Date: Thu Jan  1 00:44:38 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2011-11-13 (1144 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: xscreensaver
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-25 (67 days ago)

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