[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#456989: virtualbox-ose: changing depends to recommends

[Norbert Preining]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.2-dfsg2-6
Followup-For: Bug #456989

I have to add one point in favor or a recommend instead of depend which
didn't come up till now:

I am building my own kernel from the sources since I need some patches
and trying to test rc kernels.

I am building some modules using m-a. 

For kvm this works perfectly.

For virtualbox I can build the modules .deb, but I cannot install it
because these STUPID virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-rc5_1.5.2-dfsg2-6_i386.deb
actually ALSO depends on linux-modules-2.6.24-rc5 | linux-image-2.6.24-rc5

Daniel, can you please give a good reason for putting up that many
obstacles for people who want to use the package manager for most things
but not for the kernel itself? It is a p-i-t-a that way.

Anyway, fortunately the next upload will revert this change, can't wait
for it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-rc5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.105      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.7-4      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.2.2-4  GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.2-2    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.14.4-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                       0.8.8-0.1  library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt                     3:3.3.7-9  Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.12-3   Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                    4.2.2-4    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110                   1.10-3.1   Provides XSLT support for applicat
ii  libxcursor1                   1:1.1.9-1  X cursor management library
ii  libxerces27                   2.7.0-5    validating XML parser library for 
ii  libxext6                      1:1.0.3-2  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
pn  virtualbox-ose-modules     <none>        (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-ose-source      1.5.2-dfsg2-6 Source for the VirtualBox module

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