diff --git a/development/monotone/README b/development/monotone/README
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+Monotone is a free distributed version control system. It provides a simple, 
+single-file transactional version store, with fully disconnected operation and
+an efficient peer-to-peer synchronization protocol. It understands 
+history-sensitive merging, lightweight branches, integrated code review and 3rd
+party testing. It uses cryptographic version naming and client-side RSA 
+certificates. It has good internationalization support, has no external 
+dependencies, runs on linux, solaris, OSX, windows, and other unixes, 
+and is licensed under the GNU GPL. 
+
+Monotone requires Botan and Lua for building.
diff --git a/development/monotone/monotone.SlackBuild b/development/monotone/monotone.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for monotone
+
+# Written by João Felipe Santos <joao.eel@gmail.com>
+# Reviewed for 0.48 by Brian Muramatsu <btmura@gmail.com>
+
+# Copyright (c) 2009 João Felipe Santos
+
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+# THE SOFTWARE.
+
+PRGNAM=monotone
+VERSION=${VERSION:-0.48}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) ARCH=arm ;;
+       *) ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
+else
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
+  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
+fi
+
+set -e
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+chown -R root:root .
+find . \
+ \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
+ -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
+ \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) \
+ -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+CXXFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+./configure \
+  --prefix=/usr \
+  --mandir=/usr/man \
+  --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
+  --htmldir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \
+  --infodir=/usr/info \
+  --build=$ARCH-slackware-linux
+
+# It seems that Makefile.in has htmldir hardcoded :/
+make htmldir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+make install htmldir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION DESTDIR=$PKG
+
+find $PKG | xargs file | grep -e "executable" -e "shared object" | grep ELF \
+  | cut -f 1 -d : | xargs strip --strip-unneeded 2> /dev/null || true
+
+rm -f $PKG/usr/info/dir
+gzip -9 $PKG/usr/info/*
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog HACKING NEWS UPGRADE README.changesets contrib \
+    $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/etc/bash_completion.d/
+cp -a contrib/monotone.bash_completion $PKG/etc/bash_completion.d/
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
diff --git a/development/monotone/monotone.info b/development/monotone/monotone.info
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+PRGNAM="monotone"
+VERSION="0.48"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.monotone.ca"
+DOWNLOAD="http://monotone.ca/downloads/0.48/monotone-0.48.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="330a1fe1d92c899d1ad539606f85a9f8"
+DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
+MD5SUM_x86_64=""
+MAINTAINER="Brian Muramatsu"
+EMAIL="btmura@gmail.com"
+APPROVED="Erik Hanson"
diff --git a/development/monotone/slack-desc b/development/monotone/slack-desc
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+# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
+# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description.  Line
+# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|' on
+# the right side marks the last column you can put a character in.  You must make
+# exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct.  It's also customary to
+# leave one space after the ':'.
+
+        |-----handy-ruler-----------------------------------------------------|
+monotone: monotone (A Distributed Version Control System) 
+monotone:
+monotone: monotone is a free distributed version control system. It provides
+monotone: a simple, single-file transactional version store, with fully 
+monotone: disconnected operation and an efficient peer-to-peer protocol.
+monotone:
+monotone: Homepage: http://www.monotone.ca
+monotone:
+monotone:
+monotone:
+monotone: