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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #1741390
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 1741390

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evade (evade) wrote : Re: Package two years out of date

Sorry to hear that the build is messy.

Thanks for putting the time in that you have. I've got plenty of other things to do so I'm just checking every few days for the build to succeed.

Would this be much easier if the new packages were in backports only? In hindsight that is OK with me.
If so does it mean the priority of building new releases of these packages would also be lower? This wouldn't be ideal, since we'll need the packages in a timely fashion. (I'm also thinking ahead of when we move to the 2018 LTS release)

Could you please explain what you would like me to ask VMware to do?

As much as we'd both like it, I highly doubt they would be willing to directly maintain a package of the software they provide for any linux distro. They do say that they will provide "assistance" but whatever I ask will need to be more specific.

Thanks again!