[Slackbuilds-users] incrementing?

[David Chmelik]

Many SlackBuilds work incremented but haven't been updated or are 
abandoned (though I can't takeover more because of increasing 
home/family responsibilities while trying to work more hours).  Two of 
these are element-desktop (years behind) and palemoon-bin (months 
behind) and I don't know about palemoon (making/compiling) but that at 
least used to work (even more years behind).  Slack (unfortunately named 
chat program) would be able to increment (possibly this Spring) if it 
used .rpm, but unfortunately maintainer uses a horrible Ubuntu 'snap' 
one can't even find latest ones to download to tr increment.  I hate 
when .snaps, flatpaks are used over .deb, .rpm and when these are used 
over tarballs (which can be binary) unless it's meant to be--and 
labelled as--binary (package-bin).  Can team reach out to any such or 
other maintainers asking if they'll update or could just be incremented, 
and can any of this be automated if okay/worthwhile to do?  When I 
'sbocheck' recent years I have more & more dozens needing updating.  
Many are updated by alienBOB, slackers.it, or others before getting to 
SBo months/years later, but I don't know which or how many yet... I just 
wish some this was also listed so users can increment on their own at 
their own risk even to help test and report if something may need 
improvement in SlackBuild (maybe finding more optional dependencies).