Re: [arch-general] AUR - Best Practices when Package no longer Supported for Linux upstream but LTS fine?

[AntiCompositeNumber via arch-general]

This topic would be better suited for the AUR mailing list
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:04 AM David C. Rankin
 wrote:
>
> Arch devs,
>
>   Quick AUR question. The virtualbox 5.2 branch is unsupported as of July
> 2020. Oracle continues to put out testbuilds for 5.2, but currently it does
> not build with 5.8 (LTS is fine). I am still awaiting answers on the
> vbox-end-users list as to whether anything compatible will be released either
> as a testbuild case or as a release (Oracle seems a bit undecided)
>
>   If 5.2.44 was the last release and there will be no update to support Linux
> 5.8 -- what do I do with the package? Do I mark it LTS only in some way, or
> just have it removed?
>
>
>
> --
> David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Re: [arch-general] netcl leaves network down until reenable performed - do we need note?

[Łukasz Michalski]

On 18/08/2020 07.29, Erich Eckner via arch-general wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I got hit by this, too.
> 

Me too. Fortunately I was doing update on-site for a box without a BMC.

Regards,
Łukasz