[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Control: retitle -1 virtualbox: might not be suitable for stable releases due to lack of cooperation from upstream on security support for older releases
Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

After a private discussion with Gianfranco, I'm retitling this bug and
downgrading its severity. (Gianfranco agrees, at least on the general
lines of argumentation).

The reasoning is as follows.

Virtualbox did not make it into stretch due to this bug, for good
reasons.

We are at the start of the buster release cycle, and we don't know what
will be the status at the time of the freeze. The situation around
security support should be re-evaluated at the beginning of the buster
freeze, but until then, it sounds like a better plan to maximize user
testing and allow virtualbox to migrate to testing.

Security support for unstable/testing is not a problem because we are
tracking new upstream releases anyway, where issues are being addressed
by upstream. Also, there's a public svn repository to get fixes from if
necessary.

Cheers,

Lucas