Package: virtualbox-ose Version: 1.5.6-dfsg-7 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1
On amd64, virtualbox-ose recommends virtualbox-ose-modules package, but there is no virtualbox-ose-modules package for amd64 and there is no virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6-amd64 in Debian. This is violaton of debian policy 2.2.1. VirtualBox is useless without kernel module, so amd64 users should install virtualbox-ose-source and compile kernel module with module-assistant. virtualbox-ose-source is not even listed as recommended for virtualbox-ose. My proposal: virtualbox-ose must require at least one of the package: virtualbox-ose-modules or virtualbox-ose-source. Of course, having virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6-amd64 will be even better. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on: ii adduser 3.107 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.21 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-4 GCC support library ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-1 A free implementation of the OpenG ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.3-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libidl0 0.8.10-0.1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-2 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxalan110 1.10-3.2 Provides XSLT support for applicat ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library ii libxerces27 2.7.0-5 validating XML parser library for ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends: pn virtualbox-ose-modules <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]