| 7 Nov 2024 |
 emily | VirtualBox maintainer signed off on the idea and I think it's best to get it out of the critical path rather than keeping around a demo-only appliance that adds to the gigabytes of image-related channel bloat and has few advantages over the ISO most users will use | 07:08:37 |
| emily | especially since VirtualBox itself is so crusty (cf. this was in reaction to it breaking the channel because a QEMU change broke the installation procedure for our binary package of the non-Free 90s-vintage Open Watcom compiler that VirtualBox uses to compile its 16-bit BIOS code) | 07:09:26 |
| emily | (thankfully that chain of despair has been broken at multiple points already, but…) | 07:09:44 |
| emily | channel scripts will need deploying if it's approved; I will also make a PR to the homepage to remove that section for 24.11 in that case | 07:11:23 |
| emily | * VirtualBox maintainer (actually two of them) signed off on the idea and I think it's best to get it out of the critical path rather than keeping around a demo-only appliance that adds to the gigabytes of image-related channel bloat and has few advantages over the ISO most users will use | 07:17:54 |
 vcunat | I'd say we just merge it. (first the channel-scripts part) | 07:27:01 |
