[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Kernel module version requirements

Bastian Blank waldi at debian.org
Wed Oct 29 15:28:55 UTC 2008


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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:35:56PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 01:52:20PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > > Therefore I wonder whether we should add a conflict into the module's control
> > > file. Comments anyone?
> > No. virtualbox have to make this a dependency. I have no problem in
> > producing a virtual package name which describes some sort of ABI.
> But it's just a recommendation then. There is no dependency on the module
> package in the vbox package.

It is a hard dependency, or does virtualbox work without the module?

Bastian

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