From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:00:39 +0000, Eric Pozharski wrote:   
   > can anyone LQ-enabled comment why syslinux is outdated in The   
   > Slackware Proper?  (From what I see in the changelog, syslinux has   
   > invested huge work in UEFI.)   
      
   I have a working LQ account, but that does not help me much to tell why   
   syslinux is outdated in Slackware.   
      
   I do note some posts in the thread   
   Requests for current-next (15.0-->15.1)   
   where someone year 2023 requests to update syslinux to latest stable   
   version 6.03.   
      
   Somone then replies that version 6.03 "does not display correctly the   
   boot menu on many uefi systems" and suggests version 6.04-pre1 instead.   
      
   Then someone replies that syslinux 6.x requires a lot of patches.   
      
   Looking att Slackware current it still ships with syslinux 4.07, a   
   package that was built 2021, before Slackware 15.0 was released. Among   
   the source files and build scripts for syslinux it seems that if only one   
   patch is applied to syslinux 4.07 when building for Slackware. Those   
   source files are from 2013-07-25 and the patchs is from 2018.   
      
   Syslinux 4.07 was released exactly 2013-07-25, back then also syslinux   
   5.10 and 6.01 existed, but for some reason Slackware decided to stick   
   with the 4 series. It might also be worth noting that the developer did   
   choose to maintain different series at that time.   
      
   In the changelog for Slackware 14.1 you can see:   
      
   -8<-------------------------------------   
   a/syslinux-4.06-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.   
     Actually, dropping back from 5.01, which has a bug that prevents extra   
     options given at the boot prompt from being passed to the kernel.   
     We'll look at this again when 5.02 comes out.   
   -8<-------------------------------------   
      
   So a newer version of syslinux has been considered in Slackware, but   
   rejected because of bugs.   
      
   In the changelog for Slackware 14.2, there is only a short note:   
      
   -8<-------------------------------------   
   a/syslinux-4.07-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.   
   -8<-------------------------------------   
      
   At that time, 2016-05-25 also stable versions 5.10 and 6.03 existed,   
   again version 4.07 is from 2013-07-25. So it was probably some kind of   
   active decision to stick with version 4.07 of syslinux.   
      
   According to the changelog for Slackware 15.0, the syslinux package was   
   rebuilt 3 times and ends up being syslinux-4.07-i586-4.txz , the first   
   time it was rebuilt to syslinux-4.07-i586-2.txz was 2018, the date of the   
   patch among the sources.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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