[Bug 1220950] Re: [MIR] open-vm-tools

[Didier Roche]

$ ./change-override -c main open-vm-tools-desktop
Override component to main
open-vm-tools-desktop 2:10.3.5-8 in disco amd64: universe/admin/extra/100% -> main
open-vm-tools-desktop 2:10.3.5-8 in disco i386: universe/admin/extra/100% -> main
Override [y|N]? y
2 publications overridden.

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Title:
  [MIR] open-vm-tools

Status in libdumbnet package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in zerofree package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Availability] open-vm-tools is currently in universe and has been in
  Ubuntu since Lucid.  It is currently in Debian Main.

  [Rationale]: open-vm-tools is the open source method of installing
  tools for VMware guests. VMware is a popular hypervisor for both
  desktop and server workloads. VMware is the defacto hyper-visor for
  some industries, and supporting them by adding open-vm-tools will
  enable Ubuntu easier.

  Further, VMware is promoting the use of open-vm-tools as the preferred
  way for hyper-visor interaction with Linux. With the 3.9 kernel, the
  open-vm-tools-dkms is no longer needed for the tools to run.

  Starting with Fedora 19 (released April 2013), open-vm-tools ships on
  CD and installs automatically on appropriate hardware.

  [Security]: There have been no CVE's in the last two years, with the
  latest being CVE-2011-1681 and CVE-2009-2692.

  [Quality assurance]:
  Debian Main: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/open-vm-tools
  Upstream Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/tracker/?source=navbar

  [UI standards]:  N/A

  [Dependencies]: zerofree and libdumnet will need to be promoted as well.
  zerofree:  e2fslibs and libc6, dependencies in main
  libdumnet: libc6, dependency in main

  [Background]: For the last several years, there has been the request
  to include open-vm-tools in the cloud-images. By having this promoted
  to main, it will allow us to ship with the default image; the main
  reason for not including this in the cloud image is due to the package
  provenance.

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