[Slackbuilds-users] incrementing?

[Willy Sudiarto Raharjo]

> 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).


Feel free to contact the maintainer if you need them
if you don't get response within 1-2 weeks, feel free to take over or 
send updates

-- 
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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