[ubuntu-hardened] [Ubuntu 12.04 LTS] Security support for virtualbox in "Wheezy" is ended.

[Esly Moreno]

Hello, can my email be removed from the distribution group?

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> On Jan 28, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:14:52PM +0100, daniel curtis wrote:
>> I would like to ask what will happen now with Virtualbox in "Precise"
>> release? More information:
> 
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> Our VirtualBox updates have been prepared for us by Gianfranco Costamagna
> (better known on IRC as LocutusOfBorg).
> 
> He does a lot of the work in his own PPA and his most recent set of
> updates do not include 12.04 LTS versions:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/locutusofborg-ppa/+packages
> 
> He may try to SRU 4.3 to 12.04 LTS but there have been drastic changes
> over the years and it may not be possible for an enthusiast to backport
> and support the newer versions on the old distribution.
> 
> I can't speak for him but I suspect virtualbox will not receive any
> further updates on 12.04 LTS. You can of course continue using old
> versions with the caveats that there may be unaddressed issues; or you
> could switch to qemu/kvm; or upgrade to a newer Ubuntu release with
> the virtualbox 4.3 packaging.
> 
> Thanks
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