On Fri, 1 Aug 2025, 17:44 , <[email protected]> wrote: > oech3 [1] filed a deletion request for linux-versioned-bin [2]: > > Arch linux archive should not be repacked. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/oech3/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/linux-versioned-bin/
This package isn't a straight-up repackage of the existing kernel from the repos, it is modified so as to allow multiple kernel versions to be installed simultaneously, as a solution to the "lost all my modules upon reboot" problem. I'm under the impression it has a reasonable number of users (including myself), and it has been around in largely this form for the past five years. I think this is a legitimate addition of functionality that falls under the allowed exceptions to the "don't upload AUR packages already in the official repo" rule. I'm happy to use a different source than the Arch Linux Archive, though I don't see a rule against using the Arch Linux Archive as a source. I used to have a hack in this package so that it would use the user's preferred mirror, but this meant the information in the .SRCINFO was not consistent with what would actually be used, so it seemed better to use a fixed source URL. What would be better - using a specific mirror? I could do that, though I'd want to add signature checking or something if the source isn't the user's mirror or an archlinux.org domain over https, so users can have some confidence they're not installing malware. Happy to discuss, but consider this an appeal to the rejection request, I think that is premature. -Chris
