[Slackbuilds-users] Looking to drop my xvfb-run SlackBuild

[B. Watson]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, Bob Funk wrote:

> So the 'xvfb-run' source URL has gone and changed again so this will fail to build unless it gets updated.
> 
> Can an admin mark 'xvfb-run' for removal for next SBo update this weekend? No-one has reached out with interest in maintaining this package, and I have no interest either.

I'll take over the build. Even though it's no longer a dependency for
anything else, it looks like it could be useful.

The "source" for xvfb-run only exists as part of the .diff that the
Debian package applies to the xorg-server source. It doesn't change
often (last update to the script was in 2018), and it's stupid to keep
having "new" versions of it just because the source URL changed.

What I'm going to do is extract just the script and man page from
the Debian package, and host them on slackware.uk. And maybe bug the
Debian maintainers to see if they'll host the script separately and
give it a separate copyright/license: right now the copyright file in
our xvfb-run package is over 7x the size of the script and man page
put together, and names every corporate and individual contributor to
the X.org project.