[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#798491: Non multiarch friendly Depends

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

Hi Adam


>The reason for bumping the dependency from 2.7 to 2.7.5-5 is that 

>2.7.5-5 is the first package version that had "Multi-Arch: allowed". The 
>package version in jessie is 2.7.9-1, so I think a dep on >=2.7.5-5 is 
>OK.
>
>When I force installation of virtualbox:amd64 with python:i386, 
>VirtualBox seems to work well.



Actually the dependencies are handled by

Package: virtualbox
Architecture: amd64 i386
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~)
Depends: adduser, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}


so if something is wrong I guess is because of a bug in python:Depends.

I really would like to avoid playing with python dependencies, and let dh-python
do its job.

cheers,

G.