Still true of the deb packages provided by upstream for Virtualbox 6.1.18. The problem is really with the packaging on their side which does not target ubuntu 20.10. In fact, they say so by indicating that they have a deb up to 19.10 and 20.04.
I guess there is little that ubuntu can do if Virtualbox does not want to package a deb for ubuntu 20.10 that is not an LTS. Most likely, they'll stick to 20.04 and start supporting newer ubuntu at 21.10 in preparation for the 22.04 LTS release. On the other hand, I believe that ubuntu could help a lot here by making the current virtualbox always available in testing version on a PPA. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to dh-python in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1899288 Title: Python3 can't co-exist with Oracle's VirtualBox on 20.10 Status in dh-python package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in what-is-python package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Sorry I couldn't file this bug against the correct packages. The form told me there are no such packages as python-is-python3 and dh-python in Ubuntu... Release: Groovy Gorilla (Ubuntu 20.10). Package versions: python-is-python3 3.8.2-4 dh-python 4.20200925 The release of Ubuntu 20.10 is less than two weeks out, so I'd like to draw attention to a problem I've run into. It seems that 20.10 defaults to python3 and wants to install python-is-python3, which pulls in the latest version of dh-python, which in turn can't co-exist with Oracle's Virtualbox-6.1 and wants to uninstall it. I don't mind having _both_ python2 (apparently a requirement of VirtualBox) and python3 installed. But as of right now I can have either python-is-python3, and not be able to do a complete upgrade since virtualbox-6.1 will be uninstalled, or python-is-python2, in which case I cripple 20.10's python3 install, since I won't get dh- python and python-six. Ia there something the python packagers do about this? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dh-python/+bug/1899288/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
