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<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span>Hi Matteo,</span></p>
<p><span>First of all, thank you for the time and effort you put
into maintaining the repository for Slackware-current.</span></p>
<p><span>I understand your policy regarding the repository, but I
have a question about the gnome-terminal package.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>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.</span></p>
<p><span>Would you consider accepting a current-specific version
bump to gnome-terminal 3.60.0 as an exception to the usual
policy?</span></p>
<p><span>Thanks again.</span></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 12/10/26 a las 15:36, Matteo
Bernardini escribió:<br>
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<div>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)...</div>
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<div>that said if some maintainer has an occasional update that
better fits current for ${good_reasons} I'll gladly accept it!</div>
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<div>BTW thanks for letting me clarify this!</div>
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<div>Matteo</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno lun 12 ott 2026 alle
ore 14:17 Bob Funk <<a href="mailto:bobfunk11@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">bobfunk11@gmail.com</a>>
ha scritto:<br>
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<div>Hey, </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
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<div>Bob</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at
4:04 PM B. Watson <<a href="mailto:urchlay@slackware.uk" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">urchlay@slackware.uk</a>>
wrote:<br>
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On Sun, 11 Oct 2026, Pablo Romano wrote:<br>
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> <br>
> Hello,<br>
> <br>
> 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<br>
> reply after two weeks. I would therefore like to ask
SBo for permission to take over the package from the
current maintainer.<br>
<br>
The current maintainer is Bob Funk. He's an active
maintainer, last<br>
activity September 16, 2026, and he's responded to several
emails<br>
from me over the last 2 or 3 months. He maintains most of
the GNOME<br>
builds on SBo, and I don't feel good about giving one of
his builds to<br>
another maintainer without talking to him myself, or
seeing a reply<br>
from him on this mailing list.<br>
<br>
> The current version of gnome-terminal cannot be
updated further due to the limitations of Slackware 15.0.
However, the SlackBuild itself can be<br>
> improved considerably.<br>
> <br>
> 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<br>
> required for the core gnome-terminal application;
they are only needed for the optional GNOME Shell search
provider and Nautilus extension.<br>
<br>
That seems like a good idea to me. Bob, you listening?<br>
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