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Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

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On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 07:16 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> >But if the security team can agree up with this release model, then 
> the
> >VBox team could just keep it up-to-date.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes, otherwise the points remains:
> 
> 1) leave the oracle with CVEs in stable releases
> 
> or
> 
> 2) have an exception from Security Team and/or Release Team
> 
> or
> 
> 3) wait and hope Oracle will change the model or make an exception
> 
> ----
> 
> 
> 1) means a disappear of VBox from Testing I'm afraid
> 
> 2) We will continue to provide security new releases, and fix almost 
> all the CVEs around here
> (except for one in o-o-stable)
> 3) this is kind of impossible right now I guess (even if Oracle 
> employees are continuing
> to try to have it)


Does anyone know what Fedora project's stand is on VBox ?
From what I've checked so far, Fedora does not ship VBox. But I'm not
sure what their reasons are.......


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System

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Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it> - 2015-08-10 09:30 +0200
  Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org> - 2015-08-10 10:20 +0200
  Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2015-08-15 22:00 +0200

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