[Slackbuilds-users] New orphans

[Julian Grinblat]

Earlier this month, I ran a script to identify my deprecated packages,
and between them I found yubikey related software.
When I looked into those packages, yubikey-personalization-gui,
libyubikey, and ykpers are deprecated, that's probably why they have
been abandoned.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2026 at 7:40 AM J. Milgram via SlackBuilds-users
<slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
>
>
> Yes of course, that's the easy way. Thanks!
>
> On 7/26/26 15:07, Jeremy Hansen wrote:
> > Just threw together a quick bash for loop that can check that for you.
> > You just need to have the SBo repo synced to your computer and point
> > it there.
> >
> > My repo is at ~/sbo-git, but sbopkg users would also have it
> > /var/lib/sbopkg/SBo/15.0/ and I'm sure other SBo building software
> > have it stored somewhere on the computer.
> >
> > for i in $(grep orphaned ~/sbo-git/*/*/*.info | cut -d/ -f3); do ls
> > /var/log/packages/$i-* 2> /dev/null; done
> >
> > In doing so, I actually found that iniparser exists in both Slackware
> > and SBo and it's older than Slackware's version (and hasn't been
> > updated since 2017). It should probably be removed.
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 11:39 AM J. Milgram via SlackBuilds-users
> > <slackbuilds-users at slackbuilds.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     As a way to drum up responses, I wonder if it'd be easy to extend
> >     sbocheck to flag currently installed packages that are marked as
> >     orphans... the idea being that if you have it installed, it's likely
> >     you'll want to see it maintained.
> >
> >     I happened to see a package I use on the list, so I'll take it.
> >     But it
> >     was dumb luck that I noticed it.
> >
> >
> >     On 7/25/26 06:11, B. Watson wrote:
> >     >
> >     > At this point, as of the update a few minutes ago, we have 10170
> >     > SlackBuilds in the repo. And 1665 of them are orphaned due to being
> >     > unmaintained. That's 16% (or 1/6th) of the repo...
> >     >
> >     > I encourage everyone to look through the list of orphaned builds and
> >     > see if there's anything there that looks interesting and/or useful.
> >     > Anything you find, you can take maintenance of without even
> >     asking or
> >     > telling anyone.
> >     >
> >     > The list:
> >     >
> >     > https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=maint&q=NOEMAIL
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