On 12/12/2016 03:37 PM, Rhonda D'Vine wrote:
* Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> [2016-12-12 14:27:43 CET]:
I fear we can't do this exception. And while I abssolutely understand
that there is actual need for that (we are using virtualbox at work too,
so I'm cutting myself here), I am sorry but backports is not the place
for that.
ough, I was mostly sure there were already some packages under special
exceptions (I think security/release team(s) told me their names but I don't remember
right now)
I'm not really aware of any such.
I believe the only exception is linux-grsec, see
https://lists.debian.org/<20160322122208.GH4444@formorer.de>
and responses. (See also the complete thread for arguments on
both sides.)
There are both similarities and differences to the virtualbox
case.