The what should be updated in -current thread

Originally Posted by MadMaverick9 The real problem is that "/etc/termcap" sorely needs an update.

This is what annoys me, having two separate databases for the same info, with one (/etc/termcap) always getting out-of-sync. Then the programs that use termcap have strange behavior because of those differences.

Let me quote what Andries Brouwer wrote on 2002-10-12

The file /etc/termcap defines the escape sequences used by many programs addressing the console (or any other terminal). See termcap(5). A more modern version is found in /usr/lib/terminfo.

twelve years later, terminfo stays "more modern" but termcap is still alive

Any other packages left that need to be checked, or have we fairly much covered everything?

If so, or when we can say enough is enough, the fate of certain packages needs to be addressed, namely those that are forked packages like procps-ng versus procps for example, which has not been actively developed for some time. Should the newer editions of such packages be considered for /testing possibly?

Thanks, nobodino - I've gone through and picked up a lot of those (not all, though).

Re the termcap/terminfo stuff, that needs to be handled by Pat - someone who feels strongly about that can email him. :-)

Originally Posted by rworkman Re the termcap/terminfo stuff, that needs to be handled by Pat - someone who feels strongly about that can email him. :-)

I read "Good luck" though you didn't write it

[OT]Did you see this? I know that you are busy enough, but you are among the few who can give a sound advice to the OP.[/OT]

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Didier Spaier I read "Good luck" though you didn't write it

Yep I asked a while back and didn't get any response.

Fluxbox 1.3.6 is out
http://www.fluxbox.org/news/

automake-1.15.tar.xz

This much-needed, bug-fixing release comes after a whole year of stalling and inactivity in the Automake development. It fixes several bugs (some recent, some long-standing) of minor and medium severity. The most important and subtle of those bugs is bug#18286: "make distcheck" could sometimes fail to detect files missing from the distribution tarball, in case such "forgotten" files were generated files explicitly placed in $(srcdir). Since the fix for that bug entails minor backward-incompatibilities in the environment where "make distcheck" is run, we've decided to bump the minor release number (from 1.14 to 1.15) to forewarn the user. Arguably, only corner-cases should be affected -- but better safe than sorry.

Built a few things using this version and no problems so far.

Originally Posted by nobodino I have been listing everything than could (not necessary should) be upgraded in slackware-current, with when possible the homepage of the source package, for those interested in tracking. A series : -acl: 2.2.51 to 2.2.52 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/acl -acpid: 2.0.19 to 2.0.23 http://acpid.sourceforge.net/ ---snip the rest of the list---

That's a seriously fantastic list! It represents, I'm sure, a lot of work on your part in addition to the research and other comments in this thread.

Well done, and thank you.

Originally Posted by coralfang Fluxbox 1.3.6 is out http://www.fluxbox.org/news/

just compiled it

--enable-timed-cache is without a dash, as --enable-timedcache
--enable-shape is not in there, maybe that is --enable-xext

Originally Posted by coralfang Fluxbox 1.3.6 is out http://www.fluxbox.org/news/

hope it fixes some focusing issue, I saw the logs says resizing issue.

Make-4.1 is out too.

http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/

Originally Posted by ReaperX7 Make-4.1 is out too. http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/

I already mentioned this one on post #190. This thread is getting to the point where we should take advantage of the 'Search this thread' feature. ;-)

Yeah, it is getting fairly lengthy.