[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#856537: virtualbox-dkms: virtualbox 5.1.8 module does not build on kernel 4.9.0-0.bpo.1-amd64

[Andreas Heinlein]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna 
<locutusofborg at debian.org> wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > >This bug is closed since a few days, but virtualbox still does not 
build
 >
 > >with the kernel 4.9!
 > >
 > >Do you have any idea when the new version will be available in 
backports
 > >? If it's quick, I will wait for it, otherwise, I will recompile the
 > >virtualbox package with the new version.
 >
 >
 > never, because of backports policy.
 >

Could you explain this a little? Also, I see you had created a version 
5.1.8-dfsg-7 a while ago which also should fix that problem, at least it 
says so in the changelog. Could this be backported?

Thanks,
Andreas