[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Bug#691148: Please package virtualbox 4.2.2

[Frank Mehnert]

On Wednesday 14 November 2012 11:08:22 Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> Can Debian apply an anti patch ? i.e. the BIOS changeset patch in reverse,
> so it will become buildable again with bcc ?

Just try it. Using the VBox 4.2 BIOS with bcc is not possible. You could
probably use the VBox 4.1 BIOS with VBox 4.2. But in that case we will
refuse to lock at any bug report of such builds because in the 4.2 BIOS
we fixed a bunch of bugs and added a few new features.

And as I said, converting the sources to Open Watcom is not to annoy Debian
or any other distribution but to improve the code and to make our life easier.
We just did not find a comparable alternative to Open Watcom.

Kind regards,

Frank
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