[2017-06-06 22:58:01 +0200] Baptiste Jonglez:
Since a few years, I maintain a variant of the linux kernel in the AUR [1] that adds support for Multipath TCP [2]. The most recent version is based on linux 4.4, and the package I maintain tries to follow the "linux" package from [core] as much as possible.
There is no short- or medium-term perspective to merge Multipath TCP upstream, so I would like to bring this package to [community]. There are already several kernel variants in the official repos, but I would like to get some feedback before adding another one.
We already have an official linux package in [core] which is very well maintained and works great for 99% of our users, so I'd really like if you tried to explain why we need another variant and why the AUR is not suitable for it anymore. As you're aware, we've had another package (linux-grsec) with a user base certainly much larger than linux-multipath come and go because upstream went another direction and nobody had the resources to fork it. I'd really like our packages to enjoy some level of support and not just go to [community] "because they can" and get dropped just as fast. What could you tell us about linux-multipath on that front? Cheers. -- Gaetan