[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#792026: virtualbox: Please package new upstream version 5.0.0

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi *


one of the Debian Maintainers is actually an Ubuntu user, so there is no flame war there at all :)


As you can see on Debian git, I have personally packaged each alpha/beta/RC on experimental branch so far, and I plan to update to 5.0 stable as soon as I'm back from VAC.


However I have to discuss if 5.0 is suitable for unstable or for experimental only.

In the latter case, I'll need to ask for a sync in Ubuntu LP, and maybe followup with the 4.3 minor release (dated yesterday) for Unstable/Stretch.


Of course the goal is to have 5.x for Stretch, but I'm strictly following the upstream mail list to see if it is suitable for Debian Stretch users.


We might end up to package one point release after 5.0 if bugs comes out in the next few days.


So for me this bug is valid, but the resolution depends on how stable is the release.


I'm using 5.0 since more than one month with no issues at all, but so much different hardware is handled by VBox, and I can't test it :)


stay tuned!


cheers,


Gianfranco

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From:"Jan Henke" <Jan.Henke at taujhe.de>
Date:Sat, 11 Jul, 2015 at 12:21
Subject:Bug#792026: virtualbox: Please package new upstream version 5.0.0

Am 11.07.2015 um 11:04 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf:

On Saturday 11 July 2015 02:08 PM, Jan Henke wrote:

Why should I? Ubuntu still uses Debian as a base. So for most packages updates to Ubuntu only come *after* the new version was packaged in Debian first. Even with me filing this bug on an Ubuntu notebook, the bug itself is also valid for Debian on it's own. 

Yes. It is valid for Debian. :-) 
But just because there's a derivative using, doesn't qualify to keep filing bugs.

Can we please overcome this "but you are using Ubuntu" topic? It should make no difference whether I file such a general bug from my Ubuntu laptop or one of my Debian server instances. I agree a "this is broken, please fix it" bug would be invalid if I use an Ubuntu version. But that does not apply to this bug.

Anyway it would be great to get version 5.0.0 of VirtualBox into Debian. Thank you for maintaining this package.

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