[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Replaces: missing in built modules package?

[Michael Meskes]

Frans,

> You could consider adding a Replaces, but I decided against filing a BR as 
> you may feel virtualbox has not been in the archive long enough to worry 
> about it. If you'd like a BR, please let me know.

This would exactly be my reasoning. The package was in the archive for
just a few days before being renamed and never made it out of sid. Also
thsi problem will disappear as soon as you install a new kernel. IMO
it's not worth the hassle.

> Another problem was that 1.5.0 failed to load a VM created with 1.4.x. I 
> don't have the message anymore, but it was something about a value not 
> being present in the Machine xml file (probably the "hostmode" field for 
> Uart/Port).
> 
> Clearly an upstream problem, but kind of sloppy from them not to ensure 
> backwards compatibility. I just deleted the old VM and created a new one, 
> which solved the problem.

Right. But this should be documented.

Michael
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