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Comment 5 for bug 1741390

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote on 2018-01-05: Re: Package two years out of date

Thank you for your explanation - and even before so I was guessing just that.
I've been there as well in the past.

I understand you estimation of: I'm not convinced that older versions of VMware tools are more "stable"

I've been there as well (for other projects), but hard lessons learned (on my side) boils down on my favorite https://xkcd.com/1172/

There are certain exceptions, but these follow [2] in my former post and are generally projects adopted by Canonical in Main [1].

Long story short, backports as suggested are just the right way to do this.
I'll stay subscribed to support you when and where I can.