Well now I am just curious what your problem is lol.
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Many misc probs with simple updates
nbd really but before you contact the dev who built it, you should really do your best to try to fix all your problems yourself
If it still doesn't work, then reach out & share in detail your issue(s)
I completely agree with you.
Most of the time I am too stubborn to go to the developer myself. I have to be on the struggle bus for awhile.
One of the most annoying things for me is when I have been struggling for a long time. I finally get the bug up my ass to contact the original developer for a piece of foss I need as a dependency. Only to find out the developer abandoned the project and has gone MIA.
So then I have to decide do I really want to fucking maintain this orphaned package, or find another solution. This has happened to me a lot actually now that I think of it lol.