[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#780939: virtualbox-dkms does not work for backported kernels.

[georg at riseup.net]

Hi,

Just a quick follow-up question:

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 05:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> wrote:
> Unfortunately we can't know *in advance* the kernel that will be
> backported to jessie, so we can't make it build with a newer kernel
> that the one in jessie when it was released.

Does this mean, if running jessie and a backported kernel, each time the
kernel receives an update, virtualbox has to be updated as well?
 
> Fortunately with the security updates this problem won't be there
> anymore.

Could you elaborate on this?

Thanks for your work and all the best,
Georg
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