Re: Bug#717308: please remove or update to 5.2.X both sources, dkms and gui/cli

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hello,

>sorry and pardon me! but what kind of respionse are that? currently jessie are LTS and since wheeze backports are now included as normal repositories (lower >priority of course)
>in any case! none of the virtualbox package work with the backported kernels! some devices for jessie need the backported kernel and the problem ARE NOT IN THE >KERNEL are in the virtualbox package and the solution its only repackaged the virtualbox_5.1.8-dfsg-7.dsc to jessie that not require mayor changes (as per noted in >the changelog)


the problem is POLICY, not what I want.
Virtualbox is not part of *stretch*, so I can't with policy backport patches to jessie-backports anymore.
You are right by saying that 5.1.8-dfsg-7 is a safe bet wrt the current 5.1.8-dfsg-6 in jessie backports, but
policy forbids me to do this, so unless some backports ftpmasters ack that trivial patch, I can't do backports work.

And stretch should be *fine*, not *broken* to me.


backports ftpmasters, can I please upload a trivial patch that has been part of stretch, but removed later because of a request I made?

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?h=debian/5.1.8-dfsg-7&id=a2f9d06d070b73dc77a2d5b68766c39dd42c8fe8

thanks!

Gianfranco


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>Il Giovedì 3 Maggio 2018 16:57, PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard@gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>i REVISED THAT THE REQUIRED PATCH ARE ALREADY IN virtualbox_5.1.8-dfsg-7.dsc
>WHY NOT JUST RE-BACKPORT THAT VERSION TO JESSIE? that currently has this problem!
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>Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
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>2018-05-03 9:48 GMT-04:00 PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard@gmail.com>:
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>hi, any oklder than 5.2 will faild to build the kernel module again linux 4.7+ and in jessie/stretch there are kernels 4.7+ (4.9+ for backports and 4.15+)
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>>please remove it the virtualbox backport until a good package are available..
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>>also i can see that strecht not have a virtualbox normal package.. 
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>>i think a debian release cannot be do if many important package are not available due broke upgrades!
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>>an upgrade from jessie to strecht broke the setup of a virtualbox user!
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>>Lenz McKAY Gerardo (PICCORO)
>>http://qgqlochekone.blogspot. com
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