[Slackbuilds-users] UrbanTerror SlackBuild

[Matthew Fillpot]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Bojan Popovic <bocke at mycity.rs> wrote:

> I'm an ocassional player of UrT too. 4.1.1 works fine on 14.0. I tried
> 4.2 only on 13.37, but I'm downloading it again ATM (reevaluation :)).
>
> 4.2 is not packager friendly. There is no direct download link either
> and what exists is not wget friendly. The new update tool doesn't accept
> any command line options so it's not possible to download it
> automatically without running gui.
>
> But 4.1.1 is still available here:
> http://www.urbanterror.info/downloads/previous/. That includes direct
> download links.
>
> 4.1.1 seems to still work fine so it might make sense to stick
> with it. 4.1.1 is also the last version that doesn't use the new ingame
> auth system and there seem to exist a lot of servers still running it
> (or at least working with it).
>
> I tried the SlackBuild before, but the binary archive is ~1G and it
> takes time to unpack and repackage. I find it easier to just unpack and
> run.
>
> Either way, it won't be a big damage if it gets dropped. But it would
> be nice if someone takes over maintainance of 4.1.1 package for at
> least some time.
>
> As I said, it takes a lot of time for repackaging on my system. That
> would also mean a lot of time for testing the package. UrT is not one
> of the apps I would dedicate so much time for, so I can't offer to
> take over the SB. Even if I did consider it for a short moment
> (I'm still a bit of fan of the game). :)
>
> Bojan.
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Admin,
As it seems that no one wants to assume this slackbuild, can you please
change the maintainer or games/UrbanTerror to unmaintained?

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