[Slackbuilds-users] Built-in obsolescence

[Robby Workman]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:52:49 +0000
David Spencer <nobbutl at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> JMRI is an app with two dependencies.  In both cases the dependent
> packages, which are not currently available at SBo, must be very
> specific versions which were obsoleted some time ago (rxtx-2.0-7pre2
> and javacomm-2.0.)  Upstream has indicated that there's no real
> prospect of rewriting against newer versions.
> 
> How welcome would SlackBuilds for this, uhhh, idiosyncratic ensemble
> be? Obviously, the two obsolete packages would have to have prominent
> warnings in the README and slack-desc.  Would that be good enough?
> 
> Sorry to hassle you all, but that's got to be better than just
> stinking out the repository without asking :-/


So long as the deps build on 12.2, it's not really an issue, and since
upstream doesn't intend to release newer versions, I don't even see the
need for a special note.

-RW
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