[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#456989: virtualbox-ose-source: Please change dependency on -ose-modules back to Recommends

[Frans Pop]

Package: virtualbox-ose-source
Version: 1.5.2-dfsg2-5
Severity: normal

I wonder what the rationale behind this change was:
  [ Daniel Baumann ]
  * Upgrading virtualbox-ose-modules recommends to depends.

Are people no longer allowed to build kernel modules and copy them
into /lib/modules/... manually?

The reason I currently do that is that I run self-compiled upstream
kernels and vboxdrv source for 1.5.2 does not compile against those.
I have some simple changes that make the compilation succeed (see [1]),
but that means that it is extremely inconvenient to have to use
module-assistant.

Please consider reverting. Recommends should be enough in practice now
that apt/aptitude install recommends by default.

[1] http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-users/2007-October/002372.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash