[SRU] virtualbox and virtualbox-guest-additions-iso doesn't conflict anymore with the official packages.

[Gianfranco Costamagna]

patch attached.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi dear sponsors, the status is tracked in debian (I committed in the upstream git) and I would like to ask a sync for vivid, and SRU for all previous ubuntu releases.

the potential impact is *nothing* but it will fix many bugs, e.g.
 (LP: #1371287, LP: #1375018, LP: #1385931, LP: #1386328, LP: #1421926)

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

The sync was done in LP: #1433678.
I don't think this is worth an SRU, as noted in comment 9 of the aforementioned bug, upstream already have the following in their packaging:
Conflicts: virtualbox, virtualbox-guest-additions-iso, virtualbox-ose
Replaces: virtualbox
Provides: virtualbox

I don't think there is anything we can do about file conflicts in cases where a user installs virtualbox from the .run installer or builds from source.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

so do you think all the bug reports are from the .run file installation?

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

I don't know. I think more investigation is needed before an SRU though.
Part of the SRU process is coming up with a reproducible test case and showing that the proposed patch indeed solves the problem.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I see on my utopic the package seems to be conflicting correctly (I mean the official one).

Trying to install the debian one forces the removal.

Why the dpkg log shows it if it is installed without the deb file?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1386328
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/188437330/VirtualBox.DpkgList.txt

this is obscure to me.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what's the status on that? is there anything that should still be sponsored?

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

maybe we can just drop this...

the conflict on the official packages is available, so users might just have tried the .run installer.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

invalid, I don't care anymore