Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-09-27 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello, none for now, but there might be a backport-alike debian new repository without restrictions, I might give it a shot soon Il giovedì 26 settembre 2019, 13:36:09 CEST, Michael Prokop ha scritto: Hi! * Gianfranco Costamagna [Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +]: >  I'm not sur

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-09-26 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi! * Gianfranco Costamagna [Fri Aug 23, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +]: > I'm not sure backports team will be happy with this...and the lack of > upstream cooperation is still an issue. [...] I'm trying to understand the current state of this issue. :) * Gianfranco Costamagna [Wed Sep 04, 2019 at

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-09-04 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hello Roger, >Backports team won't complain if the package is in testing. >And I think release team won't complain now since it's not in freezing stage. > >Lack of upstream support usually means we won't have it in stable. >But if user decide to use backports by their own choice, they should >be

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-09-03 Thread Roger Shimizu
On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 5:33 PM Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > I'm not sure backports team will be happy with this... > and the lack of upstream cooperation is still an issue. Backports team won't complain if the package is in testing. And I think release team won't complain now since it's not

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-08-26 Thread Phil Morrell
Il giovedì 22 agosto 2019, 19:56:46 CEST, Roger Shimizu ha scritto: > > Since buster is already released, let's let the package migrate to > testing and upload to backports as before. On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 08:33:09AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > I'm not sure backports team will b

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-08-23 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
I'm not sure backports team will be happy with this...and the lack of upstream cooperation is still an issue. Il giovedì 22 agosto 2019, 19:56:46 CEST, Roger Shimizu ha scritto: control: severity -1 normal Since buster is already released, let's let the package migrate to testing and

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-08-22 Thread Roger Shimizu
control: severity -1 normal Since buster is already released, let's let the package migrate to testing and upload to backports as before. Cheers, Roger

Bug#794466: Virtualbox backport for Stretch?

2019-05-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 17 May 2019, Harald Dunkel wrote: > AFAIU #794466 seems to be a political issue. Debian wants to provide Nah, it’s an Oracle issue. They did the same with MySQL IIRC, which has nowadays been replaced by MariaDB as this is untenable with the reliability promises Debian gives. > and Oracle