On Thu, 2 Jan 2020 17:11:11 +0000 sborg63 <[email protected]> wrote:
> With respect to the dump list: > > You want to keep 'network/vpnc' ; it is a dependency of > NetworkManager-vpnc and by the looks of it at its 'latest' (since > 2008) implementation with the source downloadable from SlackBuilds > (http://ponce.cc/slackware/sources/repo/vpnc-r550.tar.xz). It's needed > for connectivity to cisco controlled vpn (like at my work). Point taken; I personally assumed maintainership of vpnc's build. > Please do not dump 'academic/gcalctool', it is at its > latest version (19 may 2019) -so appears to be maintained- and the > desktop calculator to use for people who want to ignore kde. > > Although 'office/xournal' seems superseded by xournalff (the latter > is based on the former and developed by another team); it had a > version upgrade to 0.4.8 in 2016/17 ( it just needs changing the > version no's in the SlackBuild and info to compile; latest source > archive is xournal-0.4.8.2016.tar.gz). Xournal is simpler and with > less/other dependencies than xournalff. For the sake of clarity, it's not that they're necessarily in an unmaintained state *upstream* -- it's that *we* (SBo) do not have an active maintainer for the build script. If you use gcalctool and/or xournal, those would be good candidates for you to assume maintainership :-) -RW
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