Re: [Tails-dev] [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Squeeze vs. Linux 2.6…

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Autore: intrigeri
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To: Michael Meskes
CC: Debian Virtualbox Team, tails-dev
Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Squeeze vs. Linux 2.6.38 + Virtualbox
Hi,

Michael Meskes wrote (09 May 2011 08:36:25 GMT) :
> There is no reason to push vbox into s-p-u with fixes for a
> backports kernel.


Ack.

> Instead I would prefer the current vbox version being backported to
> squeeze as you suggest in here:


>> 2. Current testing packages are trivial to backport for Squeeze, and
>>    the backported -dkms package builds nicely against 2.6.38 headers.
>>    On the other hand, I'm aware committing to maintain such backports
>>    on the long run involves quite more work. Do you intend, as a team,
>>    to maintain Virtualbox 4.x in squeeze-backports during the Squeeze
>>    life-cycle?


> In general yes, we did so for lenny, but I'm not sure when/if I find
> the time doing this in the near future. To be honest it does not
> really involve that much work.


Is there, by chance, something a non-DD can do to help this happening,
aside of backporting it myself using dch + pbuilder and reporting it's
trivial?

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