[Slackbuilds-users] tup on SBo

[B. Watson]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2026, Μιχάλης Μιχαλούδης wrote:

>> 27 Ιουλ 2026, 07:10, ο χρήστης «B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk>» έγραψε:
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>> development/tup
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>>  I'm probably going to remove it.
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> Why to remove it? It’s not better to leave it orphaned? Maybe in future someone needs it and grab it.
> I don’t have time, but on another message I saw 1000+ of orphaned builds. The ones I use are abandonware* like devilspie, noip2 and maybe more. So why the need for maintainer since they will never update?

If you use them, you should take over maintenance.

We're going to remove orphaned builds in the future to reduce the
workload on the SBo admins. When they break (maybe just the download
URL went away, or maybe because we're tooling up for a new Slackware
release and they don't compile), *we*, the admins, have to maintain
those scripts.

> * or “finished” software as: nothing to be done. No future updates.

Nothing wrong with that. But there needs to be a maintainer for such
software, someone who will respond to emails about it, and fix any
issues that occur.

I already wrote this in some detail, elsewhere:

https://slackbuilds.org/orphaned_builds_faq/