[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#502375: virtualbox-ose: Please at least tell us how to make this comfortable...

[Manuel Bilderbeek]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.6.6-dfsg-2
Followup-For: Bug #502375

Hi Daniel,

First of all, thanks for taking care of this package.

You wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > 1) I already had virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-amd64 (the correct one
> > for my kernel) installed from the repository.  Shouldn't that have worked?
> 
> no; compare the upstream (vbox here) versions of the binary modules.

So, what is the reason that the binary module package in sid/testing is not updated? I've used virtualbox for a while with that binary package and that was a great experience. Suddenly, the binary package doesn't work anymore, and I keep having to compile it from source after every upgrade, because the non-working binary package keeps being installed over my manually compiled package.

So, again: why not update the binary package to get the comfort we used to have?
I think all testing users are having this problem... Isn't there something that can be done to make this easier or more comfortable, like updating the binary package in the repositories?

> > 2) After installing the package built by the m-a command, apt-get
> > upgrade tries to upgrade me to the package I mentioned in 1).  That
> > package does not work.
> 
> see m-a bts.

What do you mean with this (IMHO) cryptic message?

Anyway, the problem Rob posted here, is very annoying as I explained above. And again: I guess many users are having it. So, please explain us, poor users, how we can get our comfortable situation back of a few months ago :)

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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                    3.110         add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.22        Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                      2.7-15        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                    1:4.3.2-1     GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   7.0.3-6       A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.6-1      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                 4.3.2-1       The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.1.5-2     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1:1.1.9-1     X cursor management library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.32.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library
ii  libxslt1.1                 1.1.24-2      XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxt6                     1:1.0.5-3     X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii  virtualbox-ose-modul 2.6.25+1.6.2-dfsg-5 PC virtualization solution modules
ii  virtualbox-ose-modul 2.6.26+1.6.2-dfsg-4 PC virtualization solution for Lin

Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
pn  bridge-utils                <none>       (no description available)
ii  virtualbox-ose-source       1.6.6-dfsg-2 x86 virtualization solution - kern

-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true