On 10/20/26 9:52 PM, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:
On Tue, Oct 20, 2026 at 11:15 AM Daniel Baumann <[email protected]> wrote:On 10/20/26 16:01, Aaron Rainbolt wrote:depended on VirtualBox from the fasttrack repository had to switch to Oracle's repositories because newer versions weren't packaged quickly enough.just out of curiosity, do you mean "not quickly enough unstable->fasttrack" or "not quickly enough upstream->unstable->fasttrack"?Not quickly enough unstable->fasttrack, where "not quickly enough" is defined as "VirtualBox wasn't even in fasttrack available to download for Trixie for weeks if not months after Trixie's release." If there had been a version there, any version, we probably would have stuck with fasttrack, but it wasn't there at all. I asked in the fasttrack's team's Matrix room multiple times how I could help get it packaged, and received no meaningful response that I remember. (This isn't a complaint; fasttrack's maintenance is best-effort and provided for free by volunteers, and I very much understand not having time to do things or time to tell others how to do things. It's just why I fear fasttrack may be too difficult for newcomers to help with.)
Hi Aaron,You could request upload access if you are a DD or DM. You could also look for sponsors, if you are not a DD or DM.
You can also use https://salsa.debian.org/fasttrack-team/support/-/issues if no response in matrix/irc.
-- Aaronfwiw, I'm following unstable closely for these packages on fastforward.debian.net, generally uploading at least within the same day of the unstable upload, and Gianfranco does an awesome job uploading new virtualbox versions very timely to sid. Regards, Daniel
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