[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#691148: Subscribing to the wish

[Thomas Luzat]

Hello,

I would like to see newer VirtualBox versions in Debian, too. Any fork
appears to be very unrealistic given the resources required and
problems this introduces.

If upstream does not opt for a different solution, which would of
course be great, the VirtualBox package will die, though.
Unfortunately I cannot see decent alternative packages, especially
free ones.

The only realistic alternative is to move to "contrib". It does not
really matter to the maintainers which do not want to work on a
contrib package: Either they do not work on an outdated version in
"main" (because it is going to die) or they do not work or a more
up-to-date "contrib" package.

Cheers,

Thomas Luzat