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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #1741390
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1741390

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: Package two years out of date

FYI - I completed 10.2 into Bionic now, it was in proposed and will soon be available there.

But the backport to Xenial drove me nuts (for stupid reasons), and since I can't even qualify it for the SRU I gave up the backport for not.
Yes for a xenial-backports only upload it would not be "that much" qualification needed. But still I'd not like to ship it untested.

Several people are going on with an discussion if/who/how to provide newer versions of this into older releases. But things are going (very) slow and it seems other than me (and you) nobody really wants/likes it and considers things good as they are :-/

For the question you could ask to vmware (so that it comes from different angles) I think it would be:
"if one would provide an Ubuntu ppa with such a backport, would vmware be willing to qualify this against their current set of supported vmware versions and post that on a bug like this?"
Because without that offer all my work for a backport would be kind of in vain as no one would release it.