[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20170326.1

[David Spencer]

Ok, I'm going to explain some of the small fixes we just made, but you
are welcome to delete this email if you're not interested.

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* Make .desktop validate

freedesktop.org has standards for .desktop files and a validator. We
have run the validator on all the .desktop files in our repository and
fixed the problems it reported.

* Allow VERSION override

It should be possible to try to run the SlackBuild script with a
different version, for example 'VERSION=1.2.3 ./script.SlackBuild'
But some really old scripts had never been updated to support this
properly, so we finally got round to fixing them.

* i486=>i586

We are slowly changing to build with Slackware 14.2's i586 flags, but it
is not a high priority, so normally we just do this whenever we are
changing the script for some other reason.

* Remove template comments

We like to have comments for anything unusual in a script, but the
comments in the templates are really just to explain how things work the
first time you create a script. Otherwise they are just unhelpful noise.

* Fix shebang

SlackBuild scripts normally start with '#!/bin/sh'.
Don't use '#!/bin/bash' unless the script really needs to be bash
(this is almost never necessary).
Don't use '#!/bin/sh -e', because '-e' won't work when the script is
invoked with 'sh ./script.SlackBuild' or 'bash ./script.SlackBuild'

* Fix slack-desc
* Fix .info

We have removed unnecessary whitespace in the slack-desc and .info
files, because occasionally this can cause problems for automated tools.
Also we have made sure that all the slack-desc files have the same
formatting comments at the beginning, because there are people who can't
count to 11 and don't understand how to use the handy-ruler :(

* TAG and PRGNAM

We've made sure that these variables are defined consistently in all the
scripts.

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So that's what we have done and why we have done it.  We hope these
small fixes will make everybody's life easier, or at least, more
predictable :)

Thanks for reading this, and thanks again to B "Urchlay" Watson for the
hard work preparing 900 individual commits.
-D.

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