[Slackbuilds-users] incrementing?

[David Chmelik]

On 7/28/25 5:10 PM, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> 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
Since I've 1,600+ SlackBuilds but mostly don't find out, that 's mostly 
very unlikely unless there can be a list what's old/outdated (maybe soon 
there's a way you could automate checking for new source code?) in which 
case I'll try to do my part for interesting/useful ones.  I installed 
maybe 10 times more than I use (so 90% I simply won't find maybe until 
they're years behind/broken) which I plan to try/learn and am very 
slowly doing so, though interesting ones are regularly added.
> if you don't get response within 1-2 weeks, feel free to take over or 
> send updates
For ones I mentioned--and why (which is slowing down even my own 
SlackBuilds)--again, no.  For others /if I can find out by there being a 
list/ I'll consider.
         'Slack' is the .snap--almost 1.5 years old (five versions 
behind)--with no way to find any newer; only .rpms, which rpm2txz 
works... official 'Slack' is only my last option for when libpurple 
(BitlBee, Pidgin), Ferdium, slack.com web-chat don't work so unlikely 
I'll ever need official Slack again... but for those who prefer (easier 
than some alternatives) they might want latest or to know what happened.