diff --git a/development/beautysh/README b/development/beautysh/README
index ed34e5c201..adc1f8c2a9 100644
--- a/development/beautysh/README
+++ b/development/beautysh/README
@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
-This program takes upon itself the hard task of beautifying Bash
-scripts.
+beautysh (beautifier for bash scripts)
+
+beautysh takes upon itself the hard task of beautifying Bash scripts
+(yeesh). Processing Bash scripts is not trivial, they aren't like C or
+Java programs - they have a lot of ambiguous syntax, and (shudder) you
+can use keywords as variables. This means there will be some border
+cases beautysh won't be able to process.
diff --git a/development/beautysh/beautysh.SlackBuild b/development/beautysh/beautysh.SlackBuild
index 87f4fee523..065e036324 100644
--- a/development/beautysh/beautysh.SlackBuild
+++ b/development/beautysh/beautysh.SlackBuild
@@ -2,30 +2,21 @@
 
 # Slackware build script for beautysh
 
-# Copyright 2018-2020 Leonardo Citrolo, Italy
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
-# permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
-#
-# 1. Redistributions of this script must retain the above copyright
-#    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
-#
-#  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
-#  WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
-#  MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED.  IN NO
-#  EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
-#  SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
-#  PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
-#  OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
-#  WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
-#  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
-#  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+# Originally written by Leonardo Citrolo, Italy
+# Now maintained by B. Watson (urchlay@slackware.uk).
+
+# Licensed under the WTFPL. See http://www.wtfpl.net/txt/copying/ for details.
+
+# 20230508 bkw:
+# - new maintainer.
+# - relicense as WTFPL with original author's permission.
+# - update for v6.2.1.
+# - expand README and slack-desc
 
 cd $(dirname $0) ; CWD=$(pwd)
 
 PRGNAM=beautysh
-VERSION=${VERSION:-6.0.1}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-6.2.1}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 PKGTYPE=${PKGTYPE:-tgz}
@@ -38,9 +29,6 @@ if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
   esac
 fi
 
-# If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
-# the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
-# could be useful to other scripts.
 if [ ! -z "${PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME}" ]; then
   echo "$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.$PKGTYPE"
   exit 0
@@ -50,19 +38,8 @@ TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
 PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
 OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
 
-if [ "$ARCH" = "i586" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
-else
-  SLKCFLAGS="-O2"
-  LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
-fi
+LIB=lib
+[ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ] && LIB=lib64
 
 set -e
 
@@ -73,18 +50,31 @@ rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz
 cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
 chown -R root:root .
-find -L . \
- \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 750 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 \
-  -o -perm 511 \) -exec chmod 755 {} \; -o \
- \( -perm 666 -o -perm 664 -o -perm 640 -o -perm 600 -o -perm 444 \
-  -o -perm 440 -o -perm 400 \) -exec chmod 644 {} \;
+find -L .  -perm /111 -a \! -perm 755 -a -exec chmod 755 {} \+ -o \
+        \! -perm /111 -a \! -perm 644 -a -exec chmod 644 {} \+
 
-python3 setup.py install --root=$PKG
+# For some reason, this requires "poetry", but our package is called
+# poetry-core according to python. *Many* thanks to fourtysixandtwo
+# for pointing this out. Also, there are a couple of bogus
+# not-really-required requirements listed, which prevent the --help
+# and --version options from showing the version number (and make 'pip
+# check' complain).
+sed -i -e '/^requires =/s,"poetry","poetry-core",' \
+       -e '/^types-\(colorama\|setuptools\)/d' \
+       pyproject.toml
 
-mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cp -a LICENSE README.* \
-  $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
-cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+python3 -m build --no-isolation
+python3 -m installer -d "$PKG" dist/*.whl
+
+# Redundant copy of this file (there's another in the right dir).
+rm -f $PKG/usr/lib*/python*/site-packages/LICENSE
+
+PKGDOC=$PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+mkdir -p $PKGDOC
+PYVER=$(pkg-config --modversion python3)
+ln -s ../../$LIB/python$PYVER/site-packages/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.dist-info/LICENSE $PKGDOC
+cp -a README.* $PKGDOC
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKGDOC/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
 
 mkdir -p $PKG/install
 cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
diff --git a/development/beautysh/beautysh.info b/development/beautysh/beautysh.info
index c0a66b0227..7e89a93e73 100644
--- a/development/beautysh/beautysh.info
+++ b/development/beautysh/beautysh.info
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 PRGNAM="beautysh"
-VERSION="6.0.1"
+VERSION="6.2.1"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/lovesegfault/beautysh"
-DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/lovesegfault/beautysh/archive/6.0.1/beautysh-6.0.1.tar.gz"
-MD5SUM="8839e2f2a945b83f677f34a2b78ee08a"
+DOWNLOAD="https://github.com/lovesegfault/beautysh/archive/v6.2.1/beautysh-6.2.1.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="6482b66f1bbddfcb45a341c495434ed1"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
-REQUIRES=""
-MAINTAINER="Leo C."
-EMAIL="leoc@gmx.com"
+REQUIRES="python3-poetry-core colorama"
+MAINTAINER="B. Watson"
+EMAIL="urchlay@slackware.uk"
diff --git a/development/beautysh/slack-desc b/development/beautysh/slack-desc
index b743dd237e..da84bfabc7 100644
--- a/development/beautysh/slack-desc
+++ b/development/beautysh/slack-desc
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@
 # customary to leave one space after the ':' except on otherwise blank lines.
 
         |-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
-beautysh: beautysh (A Bash beautifier for the masses)
+beautysh: beautysh (beautifier for bash scripts)
 beautysh:
-beautysh: This program takes upon itself the hard task of beautifying Bash
-beautysh: scripts.
+beautysh: beautysh takes upon itself the hard task of beautifying Bash scripts
+beautysh: (yeesh). Processing Bash scripts is not trivial, they aren't like C or
+beautysh: Java programs - they have a lot of ambiguous syntax, and (shudder) you
+beautysh: can use keywords as variables. This means there will be some border
+beautysh: cases beautysh won't be able to process.
 beautysh:
 beautysh:
 beautysh:
 beautysh:
-beautysh:
-beautysh: Homepage: https://github.com/lovesegfault/beautysh
-beautysh: