On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 07:26:16PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: > Ehlo,
500-NOTAMAILSERVER > 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. > > > -- > Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer > https://seblu.net > GPG: 0x2072D77A
