[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-terminal SlackBuild

[Matteo Bernardini]

Il giorno lun 12 ott 2026 alle ore 19:17 Pablo Romano <promano7 at hotmail.com>
ha scritto:

> 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.
>

this could also be true for everything else that cannot be upgraded because
libraries in 15.0 are too old, right? like all the other gnome scripts, for
example, but probably also thousands other ones...


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

like I said if it's something that has some added value (the
${good_reasons} indicated before) and the maintainer agrees then it's ok
for me...

Matteo
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