On 2023-11-06 at 07:50, Marco M. wrote: > Am 06.11.2023 um 06:52:39 Uhr schrieb Timothy M Butterworth: > >> VirtualBox is not available in any Debian Repo. > > It is available in sid, but not in stable.
And the reason it isn't available in testing is that there's no viable way to provide security support for it in stable, and testing is supposed to only contain things that are candidates to become part of the next stable release. Once upon a time it was made available in each new testing and then removed before the stable release (and that's how I was running it, for a fairly long while), but I remember a discussion which led to the decision that that was not an appropriate practice given relevant policy. I don't remember with confidence offhand exactly *why* it was decided that it isn't viable to provide security support for VirtualBox in stable. I remember it had something to do with how upstream provides patches for security fixes, but I don't remember whether it was "upstream doesn't provide split-out patches per fix, but only one massive patch when they make a new VirtualBox release" or something more to the effect of "the license upstream releases its code under does not permit taking changes out separately like that". -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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