Hi,
intrigeri wrote (28 Apr 2011 13:57:29 GMT) :
> Anyway:
> 1. Current Debian's 2.6.38 does not bring us LZMA/XZ SquashFS
> compression support (Debian bug #613658).
This was fixed in sid's 2.6.39.
> 2. Installing 2.6.38 forces us to include a home-made backport of the
> virtualbox-ose-guest-* 4.0.x packages, since Squeeze's 3.2.10
> packages are not compatible with Linux 2.6.38. Seems like 3.2.12
> may fix it, but it's unlikely to land into any official Debian
> repository targeted at Squeeze unless we put special effort in
> this, which I doubt.
virtualbox packages compatible with 2.6.38+ are now on backports.d.o,
so this one is no blocker anymore.
> => I'm in favour of waiting at least for #1 to be resolved on the
> Debian side. Regarding #2 I'm undecided. May be worth asking the
> Debian Virtualbox Team for their plans about maintaining backports
> for Squeeze.
I'm still in favour of shipping Squeeze's kernel in next
point-release. For 0.8, I'm much less sure, we'll see how our timing
meets Debian's one on that.
Bye,
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