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emavys

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Registered: 2017-07-24

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[SOLVED] Is bbswitch-lts discontinued?

Hi all.

Sorry if this question seems a bit silly but i'm new to arch and don't know if an orphaned package means that is discontinued.

The reason for this question is because I will use the lts kernel on my laptop and need the lts version of some packages to work properly. I noticed searching in the packages section that bbswitch-lts is orphaned unlike bbswitch. That means that the package will stay unmaintained or just that theres no official maintainer and will get updates by any other developer.

Sorry for my english but it isn't my native language.

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by emavys (2017-07-26 14:08:27)

fukawi2

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Re: [SOLVED] Is bbswitch-lts discontinued?

"Orphaned" just means the previous maintainer has decided that can't or don't want to maintain it anymore.  The AUR is community driven, so if this package is important to you then I suggest you should adopt and maintain it

This page may help clear it up for you: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … Repository

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V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Is bbswitch-lts discontinued?

@fukawi2 The question arises because the package is in the official repos and not the AUR

@emavys Your last assessment is correct, it will likely be done by the linux-lts manager, since the LTS kernels are pretty stable in the API department a simple rebuild is often enough. You can check this page https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/comm … switch-lts to see that the last updates have been very recently.

emavys

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Re: [SOLVED] Is bbswitch-lts discontinued?

@V1del

Thank you very much for your answer and link.