[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] About virtualbox-ose in squeeze

Gianfranco Costamagna locutusofborg at debian.org
Mon Dec 14 14:23:11 UTC 2015


Hi, 


>Hello,

>
>we have virtualbox-ose in dla-needed.txt for a while already. Upstream
>support by Oracle ended in June 2015 and I doubt that we will ever have
>fixes for the latest issues that have been reported against it...
>
>I would thus suggest that we send out a DLA announcing that it's no longer
>supported in squeeze and that we update debian-security-support. What do
>you think?
>
>Gianfranco, do you agree or is there any chance of another 3.2.x release

>from upstream?

I think 3.2.x is EOL.

actually we can fix something, e.g. CVE-2015-7183, but it has no DSA, and I
don't think fixing spurious CVEs just because some patches applies works in general.

I think with 3.2.28 we have performed our last upload.


cheers,

G.



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