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
