[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Can virtualbox-guest-utils & virtualbox-guest-dkms be in main?

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Asheesh,

On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 16:35 -0800, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> Hi pkg-virtualbox-devel,
> 
> I was looking at the Debian Cloud project's Vagrant images, which
> historically have used the virtualbox package for the guest
> additions.
> 
> Recently, the Vagrant images have switched away from bundling
> virtualbox guest additions due to to virtualbox-guest-utils &
> virtualbox-guest-dkms being in contrib.
> 
> But... the only reason that guest additions are in contrib is that an
> *unrelated* part of the virtualbox source package requires a non-
> dfsg-free compiler.
> 
> So... is there any interest in splitting the virtualbox package into
> one part that *can* be in main, and another part that can be in
> contrib? That would help me out.
> 
> I can possibly spend time looking into that, for what it's worth. But
> I did want to find out if there's interest in merging such a patch
> before starting the work, as well as finding out if there's something
> I'm overlooking.
> 

That'll help. Gianfranco has been maintaining it all alone. And I've
been moving away from VBox lately. So any help is welcome. Infact, if
you really have stakes in VBox, you may want to co-maintain it.


> Cheers,
> 
> Asheesh.
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