[Slackbuilds-users] Source code missing for some Slackbuilds scripts

[B. Watson]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2025, Duncan Roe wrote:

> I agree it would be poor use of your time. Anyone who cares can browse
> https://repology.org/repository/slackbuilds/problems for their email. That's
> what I do.

Yah, repology.org is very useful. I highly recommend it for any
SlackBuild maintainer.

That said... some of the stuff I package, doesn't exist in any other
distro.  In that case, repology can't help: it doesn't actually track
the upstream project, only distro repos. If none of those repos have
my package, there's nothing for it to compare to.

Example: https://repology.org//projects/?search=hatari-tos-roms

...that one's not a great example: it's a repackaging of ROM images
from the 1980s. It'll never need a version update (though it might
need the homepage and download URLs updated some day).

Better example: https://repology.org//projects/?search=cicb

The other subtle thing about using repology to track updates... you're
always a bit behind. repology won't notice that project XYZwhatever
has updated, it'll only notice when some distro repo has updated their
build/package of it.