[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 20:11 +0200, Markus Frosch wrote:
> Hi Gianfranco,
> thanks for your summary.
> 
> Although I'm not involved in maintaining virtualbox, still a few
> thoughts:
> 
> * What would that mean for Jessie updates?
> * Isn't that basically the same problem we have with MySQL,
>   or even Iceweasel?
> 
> So I think the question is either drop, or work with upstream 
> releases,
> from which I'd personally prefer.


Not sure about MySQL, but for Iceweasel, is it really like that ?

From what I've known, there were trademark issues which led to the
rebranding.


I'm not sure how they handle vulnerabilities. But their release
strategy is: ESR and Regular releases. Every security fix goes into the
next Regular release, and also the ESR release.

ESR is supported until the next ESR (31 => 38). So usually the Debian
Mozilla team prefers the ESR branch for Debian stable.

With VBox, they don't have an ESR model.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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