virtualbox-guest-x11 package depends on old X11 api in precise

[Alexander Golubev]

virtualbox-guest-x11 depends on xorg-video-abi-11 which is provided by xserver-xorg-core-2.11.* when recent updates includes xorg-server-2.15 which leads to impossibility of installing virtualbox-guest-x11 in precise.

Please rebuild the virtualbox-guest-x11 with recent X11 API.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, I do not see any xorg update recently.

where did you see such major update?
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server

[Alexander Golubev (fat-zer)]

yep, you are right, I've received xserver-xorg-core-lts-trusty with updates and haven't noticed it...
If you think that it is not a bug and the only way to use the virtualbox additions is to use old xorg-server and it is as it should be than feel free to close the bug...

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Don't really know... we can't rebuild it on top of both versions... feel free to ask on ubuntu-devel mail list or irc and report back!

[Alexander Golubev (fat-zer)]

Thanks for reply, I'll contact the maillist a bit later... As I see it now the reasonable way to resolve this is to use the same strategy for it as for other x11 drivers (create additional packages like virtualbox-guest-x11-preciese etc) but I have some doubts about if it will be supported because package is belong to multiverse. Also I doubt a bit how this will be implemented (is it possible to rebuild only the x11 part of the vbox additions?).

[William Grant (wgrant)]

Precise and Trusty point releases are pretty awkward to use in VirtualBox because of this.

A simple workaround: "sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core virtualbox-guest-x11" will downgrade to the original X stack and install the VirtualBox guest drivers

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

In #1424769 I provided a backport of virtualbox on my ppa, rebuild on top of the -lts-utopic stack.

I'll ask in the next few days if I can have a virtualbox-lts-utopic upload.