Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 04:22:50PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> I think this depends entirely on the Release Managers and the Security
> Team if they allow new upstream versions to fix security bugs instead
> of backporting the fixes to the original version in a release.
>
> Until now IIRC only Firefox and Chromium and MySQL (since remove and
> replaced by MariaDB) had such an exception.
This has also happened with BIND, PostgreSQL, and Samba. With Samba,
we've even had major feature changes in the middle of a stable release. :(
> Time will tell if the same is granted to Virtualbox.
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