[Bug 252663] Re: Please backport open-vm-source (and -tools) from intrepid/debian sources

[Lowell Alleman]

I am also quite interested in getting a backport of this package.  I wrote up a question on the "open-vm-tools" package, outlining my own reasons for this request, before realizing how to properly request a backport... which is when I found the request has already been made:
   https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+question/51827

I have only minimal debian package building experience, but is there
something that I could do to push the process along?  Does anybody know
the level of complexity thats involved?  Is it simply a matter of
figuring out how to take current source package and getting it to build
against 8.04 (with debhelper 6) and then submitting a patch? Or is this
a really complicated process that would take a large amount of effort
for someone who isn't a debian package builder by trade?

If anyone has some links to point me in the right direction (backporting
packaging how-to or a debhelper upgrade/downgrade steps...)  I would be
willing to give this a try.

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Please backport open-vm-source (and -tools) from intrepid/debian sources
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252663
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