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Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

From	Markus Frosch <lazyfrosch@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch
Date	2015-08-10 07:50 +0200
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On 09.08.2015 12:51, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Not sure about MySQL, but for Iceweasel, is it really like that ?
> 
> From what I've known, there were trademark issues which led to the rebranding.

Sorry for being unclear, I meant the usage of upstream releases directly in Debian (security) updates.

> I'm not sure how they handle vulnerabilities. But their release strategy is: ESR and Regular releases. Every security fix goes into the
> next Regular release, and also the ESR release.
> 
> ESR is supported until the next ESR (31 => 38). So usually the Debian Mozilla team prefers the ESR branch for Debian stable.
> 
> With VBox, they don't have an ESR model.

I guess they don't call it ESR or long term support, but as Gianfranco pointed out, they seem to support a lot of major releases currently.

The main problem is here, do we want to use their upstream releases? In lack of a proper patch source, the Oracle way...

Cheers
Markus Frosch
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markus@lazyfrosch.de / lazyfrosch@debian.org
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Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@debian.org> - 2015-08-09 13:00 +0200
  Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Markus Frosch <lazyfrosch@debian.org> - 2015-08-10 07:50 +0200

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