On Apr 20, 2014 4:13 PM, "Jesus Alvarez" wrote:

Please remove the following packages:

zfs zfs-utils spl spl-utils

Thanks! Jesus A.

Without any explanation, you want popular, actively maintained packages removed from the AUR? Sounds fishy, care to explain?

Sorry for the lack of explanation. I maintain the zfs packages in AUR. The zfs, zfs-utils, spl, spl-utils packages have been replaced by zfs-{git,lts}, zfs-utils-{git,lts}, ... ZFSonLinux.org are slow to make official releases, but they have a stable master branch on git. The original zfs packages on AUR required too many patches to keep up to date with kernel API changes, so we decided to instead base the releases of of GIT and provide the LTS packages for people that don't feel comfortable using the git packages. The original zfs packages in AUR are no longer required and would only confuse users. Thanks, Jesus A. On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Nowaker wrote:

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Without any explanation, you want popular, actively maintained packages removed from the AUR?

Sounds fishy, care to explain?

I was surprised as well so checked the AUR. This is what the maintainer wrote in the comment:

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Ok everyone, the zfs-lts packages are in AUR. They are also included in the archzfs repository.

The lts packages use the official releases from ZFSonLinux.org and do not contain any patches.

Maintaining zfs for the latest kernel was probably a burden for him.

-- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu

Cool, didn't know packages could be merged. That would be great! On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote:

On 2014-04-20 14:07, Jesus Alvarez wrote:

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Sorry for the lack of explanation. I maintain the zfs packages in AUR. The zfs, zfs-utils, spl, spl-utils packages have been replaced by zfs-{git,lts}, zfs-utils-{git,lts}, ...

ZFSonLinux.org are slow to make official releases, but they have a stable master branch on git. The original zfs packages on AUR required too many patches to keep up to date with kernel API changes, so we decided to instead base the releases of of GIT and provide the LTS packages for people that don't feel comfortable using the git packages.

The original zfs packages in AUR are no longer required and would only confuse users.

Thanks, Jesus A.

I belive that merging into zfs-git and zfs-utils-git would be the proper action in this case, so as to keep comments/votes and notify users who're subscribed.

-- Hugo Osvaldo Barrera A: No, it doesn't make sense. Q: Should I include quotations *after* my reply?