Best flag out-of-date ever?
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Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer
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[email protected] wants to notify you that the following packages may 
be out-of-date:


* virtualbox 4.3.6-3 [community] (i686): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/virtualbox/
* virtualbox 4.3.6-3 [community] (x86_64): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox/
* virtualbox-ext-vnc 4.3.6-3 [community] (i686): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/virtualbox-ext-vnc/
* virtualbox-ext-vnc 4.3.6-3 [community] (x86_64): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox-ext-vnc/
* virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.3.6-3 [community] (i686): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/virtualbox-guest-dkms/
* virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.3.6-3 [community] (x86_64): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox-guest-dkms/
* virtualbox-guest-utils 4.3.6-3 [community] (i686): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/virtualbox-guest-utils/
* virtualbox-guest-utils 4.3.6-3 [community] (x86_64): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox-guest-utils/
* virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.6-3 [community] (i686): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/virtualbox-host-dkms/
* virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.6-3 [community] (x86_64): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox-host-dkms/
* virtualbox-sdk 4.3.6-3 [community] (i686): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/virtualbox-sdk/
* virtualbox-sdk 4.3.6-3 [community] (x86_64): 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/virtualbox-sdk/


The user provided the following additional text:

First of all:
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 I LOVE ARCH LINUX! Thanks so much for bringing this awesome software to our 
lives!  I use Arch as my primary OS on my home system, but at work I use it as 
a virtual machine.

Second:
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This is the first time I've ever submitted a bug/patch/request feature, I tried 
to follow protocol, and it doesn't seem like the package is broken, just out of 
date, so I apologize in advance if I have erroneously flagged this package as 
out of date, when I should have submitted a bug fix.

Issue:
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When I recently attempted to upgrade my system with "pacman -Syu" I got an 
error that the VirtualBox Guest Utils version number is out of sync? So I 
uninstalled the virtualbox-guest-utils package and pushed through the update, 
then attempted to reinstall virtualbox-guest-utils package, however the install 
fails. (See the "Copy of CLI output messages" below), as a result my virtual 
Arch Linux instance no longer supports the full screen mode that I love, and 
instead is a smallish 800x600 window, and while its not unusuable, it is a bit 
of a bummer.  But I know this is a temporary situation :)

I searched the forums and saw a message that the latest distribution of 
virtualbox-guest-utils has apparently not been pushed out of the test 
repositories into the public repos. ref: 
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1370450

I noticed that several people recommended filing a bug report, but when I 
searched the bug queue online I couldn't find any tickets that had been 
submitted, I also noticed there were multiple warnings that if a package was 
"borked" to not submit a bug fix, but rather to flag the package as 
"out-of-date".  I located the package reference page on the Arch website and 
searched again for any bugs/issues related to what I am experiencing. Thus this 
message.

The messages on the forum are from 3 days ago and I just checked to see if this 
issue had been resolved and it had not, I was wondering if there is a 
resolution on the horizon?

Again thanks so much for your time and attention!

Sincerely,
Jesse Palmquist
[email protected]


System Details:
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I am running Ubuntu 13.04 as the host OS, and I have Arch Linux installed on 
Virtualbox.
# uname -a 
Linux arch 3.12.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jan 12 13:09:09 CET 2014 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

Copy of CLI output messages:
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# pacman -S virtualbox-guest-utils
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION<15", a dependency of 
"virtualbox-guest-utils"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
      virtualbox-guest-utils

:: Do you want to skip the above package for this upgrade? [y/N] y


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