Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-technologies.net> (07/02/2013): > i'm not commenting on unfair accusations, so only to the relevant part: > > On 02/07/2013 09:00 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > >>again, note that any other virtualization software, be it in wheezy > >>directly (qemu, kvm) or otherwise (parallels, vmware) which i've > >>tested with, has no bugs with syslinux 5. it's an isolated thing > >>that vbox still has that bug in debian. > > > >That's called a showstopper. > > you're aware that regardless of syslinux version in sid, the current > vbox version in wheezy will not be able to boot any post-wheezy > image at all? so, again, the vbox bug is entirely unrelated to what > version of syslinux is in sid now and probably should be fixed > anyway, even in wheezy. I don't disagree. Having a fixed virtualbox would be nice. That doesn't mean we should be keeping syslinux 5 in sid in the meanwhile, especially since that's preventing us from releasing d-i wheezy rc1. KiBi.
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