On Mon, 2015-09-28 at 12:03 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > >Looks good to me. Do we still need virtualbox-source listed then ? > > > > In my opinion yes, the virtualbox-modules isn't installable by > repository, > but only with virtualbox-source and by dpkg-buildpackaging it > (it produces a deb file with Provides: virtualbox-modules). > > so it is needed I guess, because there is no dependency between the > -source and the -modules > otherwise.
rrs@learner:~/Community/Packaging/multipath-tools (master)$ apt-cache show virtualbox-source Package: virtualbox-source Source: virtualbox Version: 5.0.4-dfsg-2 Installed-Size: 795 Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team < pkg-virtualbox-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: all Depends: build-essential, bzip2, debhelper (>= 9), kbuild, module -assistant Description-en: x86 virtualization solution - kernel module source VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system. . This package provides the source code for the virtualbox kernel module. The virtualbox package is also required in order to make use of these modules. Kernel sources or headers are required to compile this module. Description-md5: acc86918ad52775dbe11e2ad558ba197 Homepage: http://www.virtualbox.org/ Tag: admin::kernel, admin::virtualization, implemented-in::c, role::source Section: contrib/kernel Priority: optional Filename: pool/contrib/v/virtualbox/virtualbox-source_5.0.4-dfsg -2_all.deb Size: 745684 MD5sum: 8b48902082c9262fffb4417d5dd5e81f SHA1: 9e6ad5dc7a29bea5b343f08edea5ffadeed5487f SHA256: 13c32a261601d8b033dd177fa282c80fc637878adec82c004deba713b0999b71 2015-09-28 / 22:17:10 ♒♒♒ ☺ This package details gives no info about virtualbox-modules package. So from a higher level package manager's point of view, it won't be able to establish that connection. And I think same would apply to most end users. Maybe we should add a one-liner into its pkg description ? -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System
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