On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
Hi Mark,
if VurtualBox is not available in Stretch then you can use Vrtualboxe's
repository. The project provides their own repository for Debian.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
Yeah, that's true. At least one other denizen of this list has gone that
way, I believe. It's definitely a fallback option if I don't like what I
see when I put my periscope up in QEMU-land. VirtualBox was a random,
arbitrary choice when I first started using it, so no reason I should be
married to it, especially if Darac's instructions to migrate the disks
work as smoothly as they look like they should. But if I have trouble
migrating this will be the way I go.
Anyone know _why_ Virtualbox is falling out of Debian, by the way?
I believe it's down to how the upstream (Oracle) package Virtualbox. One
of Debian's core philosophies is that packages in stable can have
security patches applied, while remaining at a fixed feature level (this
is the point of stable - it's a stable platform on which you can build
your own application).
However, Oracle are increasingly moving to the idea that "if you want a
security update, use the latest version". This is making it hard for the
maintainers to backport the fixes. To the point where they're kind of
giving up on it
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466 for the
full discussion.
Mark
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