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Re: Migrate Virtualbox



Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 6:20 AM, Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> wrote:

>> ...Virtualbox is going away and will not be in stretch when it
>> becomes the stable distro shortly.

> Is this true? I've just spent 15 minutes googling for the answer, but
> either my google-fu is failing me, or that info is not out there.

The first part of an answer is here:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/virtualbox 
(see, no Virtualbox in Testing, means no Virtualbox in Stretch)

And the second part is here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466
and here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466#93

As of right now, Virtualbox will not be allowed to be in Testing in the
future. And because it will never be in Testing, in can not be
backported to Stretch. Ever.

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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