On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 11:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna
<locutusofb...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >This bug is closed since a few days, but virtualbox still does not
build
>
> >with the kernel 4.9!
> >
> >Do you have any idea when the new version will be available in
backports
> >? If it's quick, I will wait for it, otherwise, I will recompile the
> >virtualbox package with the new version.
>
>
> never, because of backports policy.
>
Could you explain this a little? Also, I see you had created a version
5.1.8-dfsg-7 a while ago which also should fix that problem, at least it
says so in the changelog. Could this be backported?
Thanks,
Andreas
