Hello, I would like to see newer VirtualBox versions in Debian, too. Any fork appears to be very unrealistic given the resources required and problems this introduces.
If upstream does not opt for a different solution, which would of course be great, the VirtualBox package will die, though. Unfortunately I cannot see decent alternative packages, especially free ones. The only realistic alternative is to move to "contrib". It does not really matter to the maintainers which do not want to work on a contrib package: Either they do not work on an outdated version in "main" (because it is going to die) or they do not work or a more up-to-date "contrib" package. Cheers, Thomas Luzat -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org