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  1. Bug #1809156
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1809156

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Martin Konrad (info-martin-konrad) wrote :

The package seems to work correctly. Note however that I had to confirm to downgrade when installing the package on cosmic. Turns out something is wrong with the version numbers in the changelog file:

$ zgrep virtualbox /usr/share/doc/virtualbox/changelog.Debian.gz | head -3
virtualbox (5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.2) bionic-security; urgency=medium
virtualbox (5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium
virtualbox (5.2.18-dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium

$ dpkg --compare-versions 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.1 lt 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.2 && echo OK || echo NOK
OK
$ dpkg --compare-versions 5.2.18-dfsg-2 lt 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.1 && echo OK || echo NOK
NOK
$ dpkg --compare-versions 5.2.18-dfsg-2 lt 5.2.18-dfsg-2~ubuntu18.04.2 && echo OK || echo NOK
NOK

Seems like this mistake crept into the previous version. We probably can't fix the previous version number anymore but I would suggest to use 5.2.18-dfsg-3~ubuntu18.14.1 for this release to ensure the package actually gets installed on our user's machines.