[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#800077: virtualbox: Cannot install 5.0.4-dfsg-3 with just modules

Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs at debian.org
Mon Sep 28 11:42:41 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 07:00 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> 
> I also changed the dependency to >= instead of =, because the kernel
> modules should work even if from
> other virtualbox versions.
> 

I wasn't aware of this. But if VBox allows this, that's good.

> (I'm specially thinking about getting a new dkms and keep an old
> virtualbox, just because the kernel has been upgraded)
> 
> @Ritesh, how do you feel about that commit?

Looks good to me. Do we still need virtualbox-source listed then ?

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