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

[Daniel Baumann]

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

if you are wondering, why are you submitting a bug report rather than 
asking on the mailinglist?

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

once you start doing things manually (by neither using m-a nor 
l-m-e-2.6), you should also manually fulfil the depends (equis)

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

virtualbox needs the module, it is useless and doesn't work without it. 
that's why it is a depends.

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