Re: Dependency problem with virtualbox-guest-x11
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:07:54AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:46:06AM +0100, Hans wrote:
> >Dear maintainers,
> >
> >since months in debian/testing the xserver-* packages cannot be updated as the
> >package virtualbox-guest-x11 inhibits the update due to the wrong
> >dependencies.
> >
> >IMO it is not really a bug and maybe it could be fixed easily. The problem seem
> >to be the wrong xserver-*-abi. It would be nice if someone could check this.
> >
> >Sorry to tell here, but reportbug at the moment is also not usable at the
> >moment (it crashes) This I will file on another way.
>
> I found this out myself, recently, too. According to Bug #764466[1],
> virtualbox is being considered for removal from Debian because the upstream
> is opposed to Debian's inclusion of security patches. If Debian can't
> maintain the software for its long-term users, then it's not right to carry
> the software.
>
> For now, the recommended solutions are to either switch to a hypervisor
> which is supported (e.g. KVM), or to install virtualbox-guest-iso, mount
> that, and run the vendor-supplied script.
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466
>
> >
Holy bugaboo, I hope virtualbox doesn't fall out of Debian! I've been
using it for a long time, and really don't fancy the idea of having to
learn a new virtualisation solution...
Mark
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