Bug#600939: I am not clear on why this is marked won't fix.

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:21:26AM -0400, Jon Daley wrote:
> I am not clear on why this is marked won't fix - is the upgrade path that 
> I found that proper way to do it?

No-one has explained exactly what change affects VirtualBox, so there is
no way we can revert it.  And we are not going to make an ABI bump.

> e.g. Whenever the dkms build doesn't work due to kernel changes, 
> uninstall virtualbox-ose-dkms, and then reinstall it, so it picks up the 
> new changes?

Or use 'dkms build' to force a rebuild.  (I'm not sure exactly how to do
that.)

Ben.

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