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In extra, /brltty deserves an upgrade 4.5 => 5.2: lot of bug fixes, enhancements and new drivers. Just changing the VERSION is enough to build it on Slackware 14.1.
As a side note, I fail to see the purpose of brltty.brlapi.pyx.diff.gz. even though patching that succeeds on the new version as well.
FYI I'm trying to ship brltty in an installer so that blind folks can install Slint/Slackware by themselves.
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 12-06-2014 at 05:54 PM.
Procps hasn't been developed on in a few years. Procps-ng is now the focus.
The newer version will have to probably be packaged separate from psmisc, but here's the build instructions for a SlackBuild targeting procps-ng only...
Flag --disable-kill is used to avoid installing the kill utility which is included with util-linux.
No patches were required.
Aside from "there's something newer and more maintained" - is there a reason that we need procps-ng instead? I'm not suggesting that it's off the table, but it would be nice to have a real reason for it.
gettext and gettext-tools packages can be upgraded to version 0.19.3. No change needed in the SlackBuilds beyond the VERSION. No issue to compile nor run that on a Slackware 14.1, I assume that stands for -current as well. The fixes and enhancements since 0.18.2.1 are worth the upgrade IMO (see relevant part of the NEWS file attached).
I'll look into what's been added since the fork of procps to procps-ng, but I do know there were some major updates made to clean up certain parts of the code that resulted in a few patches.
xf86-video-sis and various other drivers are probably not going to be maintained since Mesa3D dropped a lot of the drivers related to DRI1 support. It's really a sad state that support has been reduced to using the vesa/modesetting driver for many non-mainstream video cards over the lack of willingness by the developers to bring the drivers up to modern specs even for EXA.
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