[Slackbuilds-users] Fwd: gnome-terminal SlackBuild

[Pablo Romano]

Understood, Matteo. If I can't find a good reason to update 
gnome-terminal to 3.60.0, we'll keep the current version as it is. The 
current SlackBuild I sent Bob works on Slackware-current.

Thanks.


El 12/10/26 a las 20:39, Matteo Bernardini escribió:
> 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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