[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox vs. virtualbox-ose question

[Michael Meskes]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:14:28PM -0700, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
> is virtualbox-4.0.8-dfsg-1 a replacement of the virtualbox-ose or will
> the '-ose' packages continue to exist?

Please read the package description:

Package: virtualbox-ose
...
Description: transitional package for virtualbox
 This is a dummy transitional package for virtualbox and can be
 safely removed after the installation is complete.

I guess this explains it.

Michael
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