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Re: Dependency problem with virtualbox-guest-x11

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On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 11:46:06AM +0100, Hans wrote:
>Dear maintainers,
>
>since months in debian/testing the xserver-* packages cannot be updated as the
>package virtualbox-guest-x11 inhibits the update due to the wrong
>dependencies.
>
>IMO it is not really a bug and maybe it could be fixed easily. The problem seem
>to be the wrong xserver-*-abi. It would be nice if someone could check this.
>
>Sorry to tell here, but reportbug at the moment is also not usable at the
>moment (it crashes) This I will file on another way.

I found this out myself, recently, too. According to Bug #764466[1], 
virtualbox is being considered for removal from Debian because the 
upstream is opposed to Debian's inclusion of security patches. If Debian 
can't maintain the software for its long-term users, then it's not right 
to carry the software.

For now, the recommended solutions are to either switch to a hypervisor 
which is supported (e.g. KVM), or to install virtualbox-guest-iso, mount 
that, and run the vendor-supplied script.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466

>
>Thanks for reading this.
>
>Best
>
>Hans
>

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Dependency problem with virtualbox-guest-x11 Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-01-10 11:50 +0100
  Re: Dependency problem with virtualbox-guest-x11 Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-01-10 12:10 +0100
    Re: Dependency problem with virtualbox-guest-x11 Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-01-10 17:00 +0100

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