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Re: Migrate Virtualbox

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:28:34PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 02:46:32PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> if VurtualBox is not available in Stretch then you can use Vrtualboxe's
>> repository. The project provides their own repository for Debian.
>>
>>  https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>>
>
>Yeah, that's true. At least one other denizen of this list has gone that
>way, I believe. It's definitely a fallback option if I don't like what I
>see when I put my periscope up in QEMU-land. VirtualBox was a random,
>arbitrary choice when I first started using it, so no reason I should be
>married to it, especially if Darac's instructions to migrate the disks
>work as smoothly as they look like they should. But if I have trouble
>migrating this will be the way I go.
>
>Anyone know _why_ Virtualbox is falling out of Debian, by the way?

I believe it's down to how the upstream (Oracle) package Virtualbox. One 
of Debian's core philosophies is that packages in stable can have 
security patches applied, while remaining at a fixed feature level (this 
is the point of stable - it's a stable platform on which you can build 
your own application).

However, Oracle are increasingly moving to the idea that "if you want a 
security update, use the latest version". This is making it hard for the 
maintainers to backport the fixes. To the point where they're kind of 
giving up on it 

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466 for the 
full discussion.


>
>Mark
>

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Migrate Virtualbox Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 13:30 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-17 13:40 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2017-02-17 13:50 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> - 2017-02-17 15:20 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 15:30 +0100
      Re: Migrate Virtualbox Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-02-17 18:30 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-02-17 14:10 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 15:30 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-17 14:40 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-02-17 16:00 +0100
  Re: Migrate Virtualbox Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2017-02-17 20:10 +0100
    Re: Migrate Virtualbox Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-02-17 20:20 +0100

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