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[Herwin Weststrate <1406825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

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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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