[Slackbuilds-users] I'm back to maintaining SlackBuilds (Merry Christmas everyone!)

[Petar Petrov]

feel free to get back rstudio-desktop or adopt anything from mine
(this applies to all of you guys)

-p

On Mon, 25 Dec 2023 at 04:09, Isaac Yu via SlackBuilds-users
<slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have returned to Slackware (for context, my previous email address was isaacyu1 at isaacyu1.com).
> I now have more time to maintain SlackBuilds.
>
> I liked using Debian for these past few months. However, I just miss the customization that Slackware provides me.
> Maybe I will quit again when Debian 13 gets released?
>
> Regarding my SlackBuilds:
>
> - I plan on orphaning the following 2 packages:
> python3-shtab (I am not especially interested in bash/zsh completions for trash-cli, a package I am maintaining).
> android-file-transfer (I am not using this package anymore)
>
> - Data science (ex. jupyter-notebook, jupyterlab):
> I will not be updating jupyter-notebook or jupyterlab themselves.
> jupyterlab > 3.5.3 requires a newer version of python-requests (Slackware 15.0 only has python-requests 2.26).
> In addition, jupyter-notebook > 7 requires jupyterlab >= 4.0.2.
> However, I have pushed a fix for running jupyter-notebook: https://github.com/SlackBuildsOrg/slackbuilds/pull/4227
>
> I will be updating dependencies of jupyter-notebook and jupyterlab (but not as frequently as I used to).
> I plan on taking over maintenance of spyder and updating it to 5.4.0 (I think Larry Hajali, the maintainer of spyder, is inactive).
>
> - LXQt:
> I will not update LXQt from 1.3.0 to 1.4.0.
> LXQt 1.4.0 requires newer KDE components on Slackware 15.0.
> For example, liblxqt 1.4.0 requires kwindowsystem >= 5.101.0 (Slackware 15.0 only has kwindowsystem 5.90.0).
> However, I plan on upgrading pcmanfm-qt (one of the LXQt programs) to 1.4.0. pcmanfm-qt does not depend on an older KDE component.
>
> The forum post below contains more information:
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/lxqt-1-4-0-for-slackware-15-0-current-incl-distributions-based-on-slackware-4175730874/
>
> - Qtile:
> I will not be updating qtile.
>
> Wayland support for qtile 0.23.0 requires wlroots 0.16.x.
> Slackware 15.0 can only build wlroots 0.15.x at the latest.
> wlroots 0.16.x requires libdrm >= 2.4.113 (Slackware 15 only has libdrm 2.4.109).
> Therefore, updating qtile to 0.23.0 will break Wayland support.
>
> The qtile changelog contains more information:
> https://github.com/qtile/qtile/blob/master/CHANGELOG
>
> - Isaac
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