Ubuntu
vagrant package

  1. Bug #1125097
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1125097

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Andrew Dalgleish (andrew+launchpad-k) wrote :

This is because

* virtualbox is both a real (from Ubuntu) and virtual (from Oracle) package.

* The Ubuntu vagrant contains:
Recommends: virtualbox (>= 4.0)

From http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-virtual
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If a relationship field has a version number attached, only real packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is satisfied (or the prohibition violated, for a conflict or breakage). In other words, if a version number is specified, this is a request to ignore all Provides for that package name and consider only real packages. The package manager will assume that a package providing that virtual package is not of the "right" version.
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If you remove the version from the Recommends line it works ok.

I can also confirm using --no-install-recommends works.