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strange alternate dependencies behaviour.



Hello, I would like to package a new boinc-virtualbox metapackage, that installs
virtualbox and the extpack.

Unfortunately the upstream vbox provides a virtualbox-5.0, virtualbox-5.1 or virtualbox-5.2 (provides virtualbox)

and the debian one provides virtualbox, and nothing more (except from conflicting with the Oracle one)

Package: boinc-virtualbox
Architecture: amd64 i386
Section: contrib/misc
Priority: optional
Depends: ${misc:Depends}, boinc-client, boinc-manager, virtualbox | virtualbox-5.0 | virtualbox-5.1 | virtualbox-5.2

Now, I have installed the virtualbox-5.2 from Oracle website, and installing boinc-virtualbox tries to remove it

sudo apt-get install boinc-virtualbox 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-ext-pack virtualbox-qt
Suggested packages:
vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
The following packages will be REMOVED:
virtualbox-5.2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
boinc-virtualbox virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-ext-pack virtualbox-qt
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 24,5 MB of archives.
After this operation, 60,5 MB disk space will be freed.

why?

I don't know what can cause such issue...


G.


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