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

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Wed Nov 14 14:30:21 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:56:50AM +0100, Felix Geyer wrote:
> When you want to modify the BIOS you change the code in the files of the
> first variant so only that is considered the source code of the BIOS.

Well, you can change the assembler file directly. I wonder what happened if we
just remove the OpenWatcom source files from the tarball? Or if the developers
hadn't told us but instead said they created the assembler file by hand?

> That is a problem because it's impossible to modify the BIOS (e.g. by adding
> a distro patch) without someone running Open Watcom.

Why's that? We can change assembler source files, can't we? 

I really wonder if we're trying to be more catholic than the pope here. 

Michael
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