[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#484624: virtualbox-ose depends on a specific kernel version

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Severity: normal

While trying to install virtualbox-ose, following is what apt reported:

learner:~# apt-get install virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686 bridge-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libxalan110 libxerces-c28 linux-image-2.6.24-1-486
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-486
Suggested packages:
linux-doc-2.6.24 virtualbox-ose-source
Recommended packages:
virtualbox-ose-modules
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bridge-utils libxalan110 libxerces-c28 linux-image-2.6.24-1-486
virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-486
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-1-686
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.5MB/28.5MB of archives.
After this operation, 87.7MB of additional disk space will be
used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?


Does virtualbox have to depend on machine type 486?


Ritesh


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (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