[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#879895: virtualbox-guest-dkms: vboxvideo doesn't build for 4.13 kernel

[James McCoy]

Package: virtualbox-guest-dkms
Version: 5.2.0-dfsg-1
Severity: important

Now that virtualbox 5.2 is in unstable, I would expect it to build
against the kernel that is in unstable.  However, 5.2 explicitly
disables building vboxvideo if drm_rect.h is present in the kernel that
it's building against.

>From /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox-guest/5.2.0/build/vboxvideo/Makefile:

    # We want to build on Linux 3.11 and later, plus the 3.10 EL 7.3 and later
    # kernels.  This file was added in 3.11 and back-ported to the EL 7.3 kernel.
    ifeq ($(wildcard $(KERN_INCL)/drm/drm_rect.h),)
     BUILD =
    endif

$ dpkg -S drm_rect.h
linux-headers-4.13.0-1-common: /usr/src/linux-headers-4.13.0-1-common/include/drm/drm_rect.h
linux-headers-4.12.0-2-common: /usr/src/linux-headers-4.12.0-2-common/include/drm/drm_rect.h

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-dkms depends on:
ii  dkms                    2.3-3
ii  virtualbox-guest-utils  5.2.0-dfsg-1

virtualbox-guest-dkms recommends no packages.

virtualbox-guest-dkms suggests no packages.

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