On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 07:26:16PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
Ehlo,
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Last maintainer of virtualbox binary modules has resigned.
I guess this is/was you?
These packages[1] are generated from virtualbox-guest-dkms and virtualbox-host-dkms each time a new linux or linux-lts package are released.
Relevant pkgbases are 'virtualbox-modules' and 'virtualbox-modules-lts', since this isn't obvious from your package list.
Is there a volunteer to take care of them and handle rebuilds ?
I'm not interested, but this is pretty vague. How much time is involved? How often? Are there open bugs? Have you worked with upstream at all? Do they suck?
Although, I would prefer remove them and let users build vbox modules with the dkms package. That handle perfectly multiple kernel installation and simplify our job.
DKMS is pretty lousy without hook functionality in the package manager. The whole point is that you can trigger this seamlessly on install/upgrade. Dropping this means that you "simplify our job" by pushing off more responsibility on users. There *will* be bug reports if you just drop these packages.
[1] virtualbox-guest-modules, virtualbox-guest-modules-lts, virtualbox-host-modules, virtualbox-host-modules-lts.
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