Please merge virtualbox-ose (universe) 1.5.6-dfsg-2 from Debian unstable

Binary package hint: virtualbox-ose

This is a bugfix release and I'm documenting the upload here.

Upstream changes:
VirtualBox 1.5.6 (released 2008-02-19)

    * GUI: fixed several error messages
    * GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes once and for all
    * GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
    * GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
    * GUI: fixed issue with license display on big screens
    * GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
    * GUI: added setting for network device type
    * GUI: keyboard fixes
    * GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode fixes
    * GUI: fixed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
    * GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
    * GUI: VM selector context menu
    * VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
    * VBoxSDL: fixed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
    * VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying files to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
    * VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
    * VMM: fixed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
    * VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
    * VRDP: fixed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
    * VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
    * VBoxManage: fixed crash during clonevdi
    * VBoxManage: added ’list runningvms’ command
    * VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
    * Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
    * Shared Clipboard: several fixes
    * Network: experimental support for E1000 device emulation
    * iSCSI: better check for misconfigured targets
    * iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
    * PulseAudio: don’t hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
    * VDI: fixed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse file handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
    * VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk files on Windows hosts
    * RDP: fixed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
    * RDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
    * ACPI: added sleep button event
    * Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
    * Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
    * Linux installer: fixed Slackware detection regression
    * Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
    * Windows additions: several fixes, in particular for Windows NT4
    * Linux additions: fixed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
    * Linux additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
    * Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux > 2.6.24

Debian changelog since 1.5.4-dfsg-4:
virtualbox-ose (1.5.6-dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Daniel Baumann ]
  * Added Brazilian-Portuguese debconf translation from Eder L. Marques
    <email address hidden> (Closes: #467452).

  [ Michael Meskes ]
  * Added patch by Frans Pop <email address hidden> to make modules compile with
    kernel 2.6.25, closes: #468864
  * Suggest bridge-utils which is needed for static host networking.
  * Added patch against init script to remove newly created file again on
    failure, closes: #468419
  * Fixed watch file to cope with -1 upstream release.

 -- Michael Meskes <email address hidden> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:38:31 +0100

virtualbox-ose (1.5.6-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Michael Meskes ]
  * New upstream version
  * Fixed LSB headers in init.d scripts, closes: #466311
  * list x11config.pl with correct path in README file, closes: #466621
  * Added last changes made by the translation projects, thanks to
    Christian Perrier <email address hidden>.
  * Tweaked dfsg-free target in rules file so it is really executable, first
    steps made by Hilko.

  [ Hilko Bengen ]
  * Make module loading in initscript configurable (disabled by default).

  [ Patrick Winnertz ]
  * prevent initscript from failing if module doesn't exist. (Closes: #466851)

 -- Michael Meskes <email address hidden> Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:49:28 +0100

virtualbox-ose (1.5.4-dfsg-5) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Daniel Baumann ]
  * Again removing reimported useless whitespaces at EOL and EOF in debian/*.
  * Unified headers of debconf template translations.
  * Rediffed patches and again fixed their headers.
  * Added Portuguese debconf translation from Ricardo Silva <email address hidden>
    (Closes: #464761).
  * Removed extra whitespace in maintainer field of control, thanks to
    Christoph Berg <email address hidden> (Closes: #465327).

  [ Michael Meskes ]
  * Added Basque debconf translation, closes: #460348
  * Added Japanese debconf translation, closes: #465682
  * Added French debconf translation, closes: #465779
  * Added Russian debconf translation, closes: #466092
  * Added Italian debconf translation, closes: #466095
  * Added Dutch debconf translation, closes: #466113
  * Added Spanish debconf translation, closes: #466280
  * Updated German translation.
  * Really use runtime assertion patch.
  * Replaced two patches for module build process by upstream changes taken
    from SVN.
  * Added ARCH setting to virtualbox-ose-source rules file so we can cross
    compile the module.
  * Insert module in initscript.

  [ Patrick Winnertz ]
  * Fix error of postrm if vboxusers is a non-system group (maybe added
    manually before installation of virtualbox-ose). (Closes: #462885)
  * Added reviewed debconf templates and translations.
      (Closes: #463283) Thanks to Christian Perrier
      (Closes: #463828) Thanks to Jacobo Tarrio.
      (Closes: #463959) Thanks to Esko Arajärvi
      (Closes: #464043) Thanks to Miroslav Kure
      (Closes: #464509) Thanks to Clytie Siddall

 -- Michael Meskes <email address hidden> Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:08:04 +0100