Hi, On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 15:00 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > As shown in policy 7.2 > > "You should not specify a Pre-Depends entry for a package before this > has been discussed on the debian-devel mailing > list and a consensus about doing that has been reached. See > Dependencies, Section 3.5." > > the problem actually is that virtualbox-dkms should be configured > *before* configuring virtualbox, otherwise > without a built kernel module, restarting VMs > will fail and lead to an half-configured package. > > Please see bugs #798527 and #798979 as examples.
This should work with a normal Depends relation (reread Policy 7.2). This commit helped since it prevented a circular dependency involving the two packages: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-virtualbox/virtualbox.git/commit/?id=68f57408199e304df63285910a360bc2f6ae2372 So after that commit, a normal Depends from virtualbox to virtualbox -dkms should be all that's nessesary. Thanks, James
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