[aur-requests] [PRQ#34771] Deletion Request for virtualbox-modules-lts

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Mon May 23 09:32:38 UTC 2022


MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for virtualbox-modules-lts [2]:

Oprhaned package, created in 2017, last updated
in Feb 2021.

Name and description a little vague, but it seems
this was intended to build virtualbox-host-modules
for the Arch linux-lts kernel.

Already in 2017, it was indicated that its provides field
is wrong, but it was not addressed.

Also there are other reports of build failures from
2020 and 2021, none of which have been replied to.

As of now this package is definitely not needed,
as the Arch [community] repo does provide
'VIRTUALBOX-HOST-MODULES' in virtualbox-host-dkms
package.
That package expliciy declares:
replaces= virtualbox-host-modules-lts.
The package works with the linux-lts kernel if
that is installed.

Therefore this orphaned and broken AUR package
is superfluous and not worth keeping.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/virtualbox-modules-lts/


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