On Mon, 22 Jun 2026, Jim via SlackBuilds-users wrote:
I would miss it if it got removed. Unless there is something else that does the same job.
OK, that's 3 votes for keeping it, and none for removal. Tim Dickson might even be able to take over as maintainer... so it stays, as an orphaned build. Which probably means I have to update it to the latest bleeding-edge git commit of dislocker. So far, that's the only way I've gotten dislocker to build with mbedtls-3.6.6. So I'll do that, and set the maintainer to "orphaned", and Tim can take it over when he's ready. Sound like a plan? Reading back, I might not have made it clear... the point of the exercise is to update mbedtls to a version that's still supported by its upstream. 3.6.6 is a LTS (long-term support) branch of mbedtls, the 2.x series have all been EOLed. This matters more for mbedtls than it might for other stuff, because mbedtls is a crypto/security library.
I'm surprised by the low number of responses to this. I don't expect Slackware users to be looking at their 'Doze partition often, but every now and then it might be necessary.
Not all of us have a "'Doze partition" (I don't). When I update dislocker to the latest git, I won't be able to test whether it actually works (decrypts BitLocker encrypted partitions); all I can do is make sure it compiles and basic stuff like "dislocker -h" (show built-in help) works. So I'll be relying on you (all of you who responded to the original mail) to let me know if it works or not. _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
