[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#453681:

[Michael Meskes]

It's debatable which package is at fault, but it's definitely
unacceptable to just reassign the bug without a single line of
explanation. 

Assuming that Panthera didn't even check what's going on, here's the
explanation:

linux-modules-extra calls make inside virtualbox-ose-source
with a commandline setting of MODULE="virtualbox-ose", at least it
appears it does. I wasn't able to find any docs about the way
linux-modules-extra works. Anyway, the makefile uses the variable MODULE
to refer to vboxdrv, the correct module name, but this is overriden by
the commandline option. Thus the module gets the wrong name. Given that
I see no reason to be able to override this variable I will patch the
makefile in virtualbox-ose to not allow this. But I do not see a reason
for linux-modules-extra to act this way. 

Michael
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