[arch-general] Why move LTS to 5.10 when VirtualBox guests Kernel Panic with 5.10?

[David Rosenstrauch]

On 2/17/21 3:48 AM, David C. Rankin via arch-general wrote:
> Archdevs,
> 
>    You move of both linux and linux-lts to the same kernel is bewildering. That
> eliminates all fallback capability lts provides. Currently, virtualbox Arch
> guests are broken on 5.10 (as with most other distros).
> 
>    See: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/20055
> 
>    With linux on 5.10 and lts on 5.4 it was workable to have lts guests. Now
> you have linux and linux-lts as the same kernel. How does that make sense?


That was an upstream decision.  Linux kernel team moved lts to 5.10, so 
Arch followed suit.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

DR