[Slackbuilds-users] Alan Aversa (aka Caterino Tommaso, T.O.P.)

[Kevin Bryant]

I'll take the Soapy* builds and the SDR builds, I've used them extensively.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2026, 4:04 AM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote:

> This is unpleasant, but the SBo admin team has come to a decision
> about Alan Aversa (also known as Caterino Tommaso, T.O.P.).
>
> We've tried to reach this maintainer via email several times over the
> past few weeks, including posting to the mailing list. We have also
> tried sending messages on LQ.
>
> This person has been breaking two of the rules:
>
> - Submitting updates for other peoples' builds without permission.
>
> - Not basing his updates on our changes, when we have to change
>    something in one of his builds. E.g. anki does not require Markdown,
>    and we removed it from REQUIRES, but every time he updates anki, he
>    re-adds Markdown to REQUIRES.
>
> Since this has been going on for a while now, and we can't reach him
> to explain why this isn't allowed, we're giving up.
>
> If anyone would like to take over any of these builds, please send
> an update (submission form or PR/MR) setting yourself as maintainer,
> and whatever other changes you'd like to make. Most of them need
> version updates.
>
> Anything that hasn't been taken by the next weekly update will be
> orphaned. We don't like to do this, but the bogus updates have caused
> us headaches and extra work. We're done.
>
> The lists are at these 2 URLs:
>
> https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=maint&q=Alan%20Aversa
>
> https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php?stype=maint&q=Caterino%20Tommaso
>
> ...or here:
>
> CubicSDR
> SDRPlay
> SoapyRemote
> SoapySDR
> SoapySDRPlay
> WolframEngine
> anki
> bsddb3
> btrbk
> cbmc
> contextlib2
> cryptominisat
> diffuse
> google-images-download
> gramps
> ibus-typing-booster
> img2pdf
> internetarchive
> jpdfbookmarks
> jupyter-ipywidgets
> jupyter-widgetsnbextension
> kissat
> krop
> liquid-dsp
> louvain-community
> plover
> purple-gowhatsapp
> qdirstat
> retroshare
> scantailor-advanced
> schema
> simplex-desktop
> waydroid
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