I wonder what is the oldest release of some software still regularly packaged by distros? FIGlet is up to 14 years.
> The current version of FIGlet is 2.2.5 (May 2012) based on version 2.2 by John Cowan.
```
$ apk info figlet
figlet-2.2.5-r0 description:
Program for making large letters out of ordinary text
figlet-2.2.5-r0 webpage:
http://www.figlet.org
figlet-2.2.5-r0 installed size:
629 KiB
```
Wesley Moore
npub17r…a4ffe
2026-09-01 23:56:22 UTC
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2026-09-01 23:56:22 UTCEvent JSON
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