[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#762061: virtualbox-dkms fails to build on standard 3.14.15 kernel

[Ben Hutchings]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 13:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
[...]

> That said, I am using the same version on the same kernel, on my
> Debian box. My guess is that you do not have the relevant
> linux-headers package installed.
> 
> 
> @VBox Maintainers: I am seeing too many similar bug reports. Perhaps
> we should add a Recommends on the kernel headers metapackage. But the
> catch is that there is no linux-headers meta package like we have for,
> say, linux-tools.
> 
> @Debian Kernel Maintainers: What would you recommend we add a
> Recommends for ?

Nothing.  Reassign this to dkms (with lower severity) and let them
handle it.  (Not that they will do anything, judging by the current bug
list and the last maintainer upload)

By the way, building VBox with m-a *is* still broken; please see
<https://bugs.debian.org/732521#32>.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindberg
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