Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 06:00:43PM +0100, 80 wrote:

> The failure is due to Fedora *non-upstream* versionning scheme,
> VirtualBox has *already* fixes the API/ABI issue upstream relying on
> the kernel version (since 3.2 RC).  It has nothing to do with the
> kernel non-stable ABI policy (which is notorious).
> The least we can do is helping third-party packagers to fix this
> issue, not slamming the door on their face.

The supported way to provide a module for Fedora is to have it in the 
upstream kernel source. Anything else is explicitly not supported.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org