* On 2019 03 Aug 02:25 -0500, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote:
> > On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
> 
> >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to
> >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed
> >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the
> >> Buster repositories.
> >> 
> >> Anyone have any thoughts?
> 
> > I grabbed the .debs from the Sid repository and manually installed
> > them.  I've not gotten around to setting up pinning to track them
> > automatically.
> 
> This will work for now, because Buster and Sid are still quite similar
> but as soon as Sid diverges farther from Buster, this will fail or
> worse, pull many dependencies from Sid into you Buster installation.

I understand that.  I hope that by that time I'll be so bored with the
stability of Buster that it will be time to move up to Bullseye while it
is still Testing.

- Nate

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