alt Hacker NewsAny clue what these packages were 'supposed' to do or why somebody might have installed them? Their PKGBUILD descriptions are copies of the respective browsers', not explaining the -patched part.
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Jorchime • yesterday at 7:00 PM
I wondered about the same thing. Not an answer, but my guess would be that it's just a new package and they hoped someone picked it up by accident? In that case, it was patched with malware :)
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Looks like someone archived the page of firefox-patch-bin[1] and the only thing that stands out about the package itself is that it's supposedly the "Extended Support Release." Besides that it looks like it's depended on by 183 other packages/metapackages. While that seems more interesting, there isn't an archive of all of those packages.
[1]https://web.archive.org/web/20250718140411/https://aur.archl...