[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#475738: virtualbox-ose: virtualox-ose-module missing but recommended

[Osamu Aoki]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.5.6-dfsg-6
Severity: important

I do not see virtualbox-ose-modules in the archive.

While in the policy:

2.2.1 The main category

Every package in main must comply with the DFSG (Debian Free Software
Guidelines).

In addition, the packages in main
    * must not require a package outside of main for compilation or
      execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends",
      "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-main
      package),
...

I did not check why it is not in main archive (nor in non-free).  But if
we do not have the package, we should not recommend it by policy.
(Just suggest them.)  It least without module, it stop running.

Or is this new package queue issue?  (If so, please close this.)

If we are to install such package bu m-a's help only, we should skip
recommending it.  Adding clear comments in README.Debian to run m-a
may be good idea.

Osamu

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (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

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.107      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.20     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.3.0-3  GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.3-1    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.3-2   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libidl0                       0.8.10-0.1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii  libqt3-mt                     3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsdl1.2debian               1.2.13-2   Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libstdc++6                    4.3.0-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library
ii  libxalan110                   1.10-3.2   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                      2:1.0.4-1  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)

-- debconf information:
  virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: false