[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#510736: virtualbox-ose: needs to depend versioned on kbuild

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Sun Jan 4 15:16:17 UTC 2009


Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 2.1.0-dfsg-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 4.2

Backporting the current experimental virtualbox-ose package to Lenny
fails with a complaint that kbuild needs to be updated.

While it is not required for packages to support backports, it _is_
required that the build-dependencies declared are correct and complete.

I did not investigate exactly which version of kbuild satisfies this
newer version of virtualbox-ose. The simple approach is to just build-
depend on at least the version currently in Sid. A much better approach,
however, is to figure out the exact upstream minimal required version,
and then declare at least that version - with "~" added at the end to
allow also backports of that exact version.

Kind regards,

 - Jonas





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