Hi all,

At least temporarily I am going to take over the maintenance of slackpkg+, the extension to slackpkg which allows you to manage the installation and upgrade of Slackware packages from 3rd-party repositories.

Slackpkg+ is developed by Matteo Rossini (zerouno) but zerouno has not been able to contribute for the past couple of years. As a consequence, slackpkg+ has some issues when used in Slackware-current.
It’s impossible to communicate with him directly so I had some conversations with his family in the past which resulted in my maintenance-takeover of his other product, slakfinder.

And now I am welcoming pull requests and patches for my fork of slackpkg+. I want to have a release as quickly as possible, taking care of open issues.

Note: zerouno was working on an enhanced version of slackpkg+ which could communicate with slakfinder. The code for that slakfinder API has never been published even though you can find a ‘dev’ version of a slackpkg+ package which contains the calls to that API.
Therefore I am going to ignore the ‘devel’ or ‘test’ version of slackpkg+ which can be found in zerouno’s repository. I will accept patches and pull requests only for the ‘master’ branch.

When zerouno is able to resume his work again, I will gladly hand maintenance back over to him. I am not a software developer but I appreciate properly working tools.

Hope to see some suggestions soon.
Eric

Update 20250301:
I have released slackpkg+ 1.8.1 which addresses the most glaring issues due to the changes in Slackware-current over the past three years.
The repository at https://slackware.nl/slackpkgplus/ has been updated. I kept the https://slackware.nl/slackpkgplus15/ URL for backward compatibility.
See also https://github.com/alienbob/slackpkgplus/releases for the release notes and the git commits.

Update 20250304:
I released slackpkg+ 1.8.2 which includes all fixes and pull requests that were available. Please share any remaining bugs but also improvement proposals.