[Slackbuilds-users] Adopting Orphaned Packages

[Lumin Etherlight]

Heya, SBo~

        I currently use  the following packages from
  time to time, so if they are still orphaned and no
  one is taking them, I would appreciate if they are
  assigned to  me.  I'm currently unable  to push an
  update to do  so myself, so I  would appreciate if
  an admin assigned them to me.

        development/cppcheck
        development/ecl
        development/opencvs
        games/firestorm
        network/mod_evasive

        As for  the following packages, I  don't use
  them currently,  but I've  used them before,  or I
  see myself using them in  the future, so if no one
  else is taking them, I'm  open to having them also
  assigned to  me rather than having  them disappear
  from the SBo repository.

        academic/latex2html
        network/ejabberd
        network/iperf
        network/pgbouncer
        office/dictd
        system/audit
        system/dtach
        system/virt-viewer

        As for  the next section, those  just caught
  my eye  as some seemingly  important, traditional,
  or cool  packages, but I don't  currently have the
  capacity or interest to handle them.  Posting them
  here for others to perhaps consider adopting them.

        business/beancount
        development/bazel
        development/electron
        development/gnu-apl
        development/unmake
        games/OpenJK
        games/spring
        games/voxelands
        graphics/jpeg2ps
        libraries/hoedown
        libraries/mongo-c-driver
        libraries/mongo-cxx-driver
        libraries/rabbitmq-c
        misc/rsnapshot
        misc/xapian-omega
        network/bombadillo
        network/etherpad-lite
        network/glusterfs
        network/icecat
        network/jitsi
        network/metasploit
        network/mod_wsgi
        network/netperf
        network/pidgin-otr
        network/pidgin-whatsapp
        system/byobu
        system/elasticsearch
        system/freefont
        system/spacefm
        system/tokyocabinet
        system/vagrant
        system/vagrant-public-key
        system/veracrypt

        I wrote and used  the following shell script
  to list orphan packages with descriptions, to then
  review them for what possibly interests me.  It is
  not the fastest script,  and is pretty unreadable,
  and likely fragile,  but it got the job  done in a
  few seconds.  Modify the cd  path to point to your
  own local slackbuilds mirror of course.

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~$ cat `which sbo-list-orphans`

#!/bin/sh

cd ~/slackbuilds || exit 1
grep -rP 'HOMEPAGE=|MAINTAINER=' --include=*.info | paste - - |
        sed 's#:#/#' | cut -d/ -f 3 --complement |
        sed 's#/HOMEPAGE#\tHOMEPAGE#;s#" .*.info:# #' |
        grep 'MAINTAINER="orphaned - no maintainer"' |
        sed 's#"\t.*MAINTAINER.*##' | sed 's/HOMEPAGE="//' |
        while read -r line; do
                echo "$line" | cut -d"$(printf '\t')" -f 1 | tr '\n' '\t';
                grep "$(echo "$line" | cut -d"$(printf '\t')" -f 1 | cut -d/ -f 2) (" \
                        "$(echo "$line" | cut -d"$(printf '\t')" -f 1)/slack-desc" |
                        cut -d: -f 1 --complement | tr '\n' '\t'
                echo "$line" | cut -d"$(printf '\t')" -f 2 | tr '\n' '\t';
                echo
        done

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  Thank you all for your work~


Best Regards,
Lumin Etherlight