Thanks for the pointer Daniel! It looks like Michael will help us all out and do a non-maintainer upgrade to get 2010.1.16 into testing: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560685#44
Does that mean it will automatically go into Lucid? Or is there more work to be done since the package in Ubuntu ends with "-1ubuntu5" ? Thanks, stephan On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Daniel Chen <seven.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Jonathon Fernyhough > <j.fernyho...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'd second this. I've done some (admittedly unscientific) testing >> running two VirtualBox VMs concurrently off the same NTFS disk* >> (Karmic and Windows 7 on a Lucid host). With 2009.4.4 there was >> significant lag; programs and menus took a noticeable time to appear. >> After updating to 2010.1.16 both are purring along nicely, even when >> the host has disk activity (such as aptitude installing a kernel >> update) which previously made a single VM lag. >> >> Considering how trivial it was to install from source it can't be >> difficult to include in Lucid? Or do we need to file a request >> somewhere? > > There is already > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560685, so I > recommend working as quickly and diligently as possible to get it into > Debian testing. > > Best, > -Dan > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss