Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Pointers to said discussion would be helpful. http://bugs.debian.org/691148 -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 27-05-13 13:30, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2013 12:45:27 Holger Levsen wrote: >> On Montag, 27. Mai 2013, Frank Mehnert wrote: >>> EFI in VirtualBox has definitely not the same level of stability as the >>> normal BIOS. I would strongly discourage from publishing an EFI-only >>> Vir

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
On Monday 27 May 2013 12:45:27 Holger Levsen wrote: > On Montag, 27. Mai 2013, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > EFI in VirtualBox has definitely not the same level of stability as the > > normal BIOS. I would strongly discourage from publishing an EFI-only > > VirtualBox package. > > so making it the defa

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 27. Mai 2013, Frank Mehnert wrote: > EFI in VirtualBox has definitely not the same level of stability as the > normal BIOS. I would strongly discourage from publishing an EFI-only > VirtualBox package. so making it the default and moving virtualbox back to main would give this ins

Re: [Pkg-virtualbox-devel] virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-27 Thread Frank Mehnert
Hi, On Saturday 18 May 2013 22:03:08 Felix Geyer wrote: > On 18.05.2013 20:04, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > >> However, Watcom is needed only for 16-bit code, and VirtualBox has an > >> EFI mode. Would it be possible to restrict it to EFI only in main, > >> unless the BIOS from contrib is loaded? >

Re: virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Felix Geyer
On 18.05.2013 20:04, Antonio Terceiro wrote: >> However, Watcom is needed only for 16-bit code, and VirtualBox has an EFI >> mode. Would it be possible to restrict it to EFI only in main, unless the >> BIOS from contrib is loaded? > > If that's possible, I would ask the virtualbox maintainer(s) t

Re: virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Jarek KamiƄski
W dniu 18.05.2013 18:00, Adam Borowski pisze: >>> I've noticed that virtualbox moved from main to contrib > It's a major loss. > However, Watcom is needed only for 16-bit code, and VirtualBox has an EFI > mode. Would it be possible to restrict it to EFI only in main, unless the > BIOS from contr

Re: virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Antonio Terceiro
[re-adding the package maintainer(s) in Cc:, and adding the vagrant maintainer(s) in the loop] On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 05:49:38PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:38:46PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 05/18/2013 08:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > > I've noticed that v

Re: virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:38:46PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/18/2013 08:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I've noticed that virtualbox moved from main to contrib > FYI, this has been discussed here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691148 It's a major loss. However, Wa

Re: virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/18/2013 08:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that virtualbox moved from main to contrib (via > http://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_sid_install_full_desktop/) > and while I personally don't use virtualbox anymore I think this is news to > be > announced (henc

virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, I've noticed that virtualbox moved from main to contrib (via http://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_sid_install_full_desktop/) and while I personally don't use virtualbox anymore I think this is news to be announced (hence informing the publicity team), probably even deserving an