[Slackbuilds-users] oidentd very outdated and won't be updated?

[B. Watson]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2024, dchmelik at gmail.com wrote:

> I use oidentd but don't make network utility SlackBuilds (I'm far
> from a network expert) so if anyone else does, one might consider
> asking him you can takeover oidentd?

Yet you maintain network/icyque... which uses the network in more
complex ways than oidentd does.

It's not rocket science. There's already a slackbuild and it already
works. You could take it over and update it. You don't have to be
a network expert, you just have to know how to use whatever you're
packaging, and make sure it works (you probably use it for IRC and
already know how to tell if the IRC server got an ident response).

Since the build is unmaintained, whoever wants it updated badly
enough can take it over. You're the only one who's interested enough
to post to the mailing list about it in the 5+ years since it was last
updated, so you're the #1 candidate to become its new maintainer.

Just for testing, I downloaded the latest oidentd source (v3.1.0) and
ran oidentd.SlackBuild with VERSION=3.1.0 in the environment, and it
built just fine. So updating the build isn't going to take you a lot
of time and effort (just VERSION and DOWNLOAD need to be changed).

I'd say, go for it. You can do this.