[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-terminal SlackBuild

[Pablo Romano]

Hi Matteo,

First of all, thank you for the time and effort you put into maintaining 
the repository for Slackware-current.

I understand your policy regarding the repository, but I have a question 
about the gnome-terminal package.

The version currently available in SBo is 3.43.90, which is kept there 
because of the dependency limitations of Slackware 15.0. However, the 
current upstream stable release is 3.60.0, and Slackware-current already 
provides a sufficiently recent dependency stack to build it.

So, in this particular case, the old version in SBo is not really a 
limitation of Slackware-current itself, but rather a consequence of SBo 
having to remain compatible with Slackware 15.0.

Would you consider accepting a current-specific version bump to 
gnome-terminal 3.60.0 as an exception to the usual policy?

Thanks again.


El 12/10/26 a las 15:36, Matteo Bernardini escribió:
> the unofficial repository for current is there mainly to host fixes to 
> let SBo stuff build on current so parallel maintaining scripts that 
> are on SBo with newer versions for current with frequent updates is 
> outside its scope (I already have 774 branches to rebase every week)...
>
> that said if some maintainer has an occasional update that better fits 
> current for ${good_reasons} I'll gladly accept it!
>
> BTW thanks for letting me clarify this!
>
> Matteo
>
> Il giorno lun 12 ott 2026 alle ore 14:17 Bob Funk 
> <bobfunk11 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
>     Hey,
>
>     thanks for dropping me a line here. It looks like the "Sept 27
>     email" went to my spam and unnoticed by me until prompted by this
>     email.
>
>     I can get the gnome-terminal slackbuild script tweaked to build
>     without nautilus and get the changes in for next weeks update.
>     It's been on my todo list with changes when I update it, but I
>     might as well do it now.
>
>     Regarding your request to take over: I'd still prefer to maintain
>     it and use it as my primary terminal emulator. You mentioned
>     wanting to take it over so you can submit an updated slackbuild to
>     ponce's slackware current repo. I was unaware this is something we
>     can do, but I can certainly do that as well, if ponce is okay with
>     me making pull requests to his repo.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Bob
>
>
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 4:04 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk>
>     wrote:
>
>
>
>         On Sun, 11 Oct 2026, Pablo Romano wrote:
>
>         >
>         > Hello,
>         >
>         > I contacted the maintainer of gnome-terminal on September 27
>         to ask for permission to take over maintenance of the package,
>         but I have not received a
>         > reply after two weeks. I would therefore like to ask SBo for
>         permission to take over the package from the current maintainer.
>
>         The current maintainer is Bob Funk. He's an active maintainer,
>         last
>         activity September 16, 2026, and he's responded to several emails
>         from me over the last 2 or 3 months. He maintains most of the
>         GNOME
>         builds on SBo, and I don't feel good about giving one of his
>         builds to
>         another maintainer without talking to him myself, or seeing a
>         reply
>         from him on this mailing list.
>
>         > The current version of gnome-terminal cannot be updated
>         further due to the limitations of Slackware 15.0. However, the
>         SlackBuild itself can be
>         > improved considerably.
>         >
>         > At present, it declares gnome-shell and nautilus as
>         dependencies, which makes building the package take a very
>         long time. Neither of them is actually
>         > required for the core gnome-terminal application; they are
>         only needed for the optional GNOME Shell search provider and
>         Nautilus extension.
>
>         That seems like a good idea to me. Bob, you listening?
>
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