Requesting an SRU exception approval for open-vm-tools

[Christian Ehrhardt]

Hi,
after formerly (pre 2018) people often reporting issues of not having an
LTS that could work fully well with the latest VMware we have, now for more
than five years, done regular backports of open-vm-tools. But a recent
misunderstanding between Steve and myself has identified that we missed to
put this down clearly enough as a properly approved "special case".

To be fair - In the past, AFAIK, we have not always done/needed such
exceptions for things that go to SRU under "other safe cases" [1], but this
case is not so much "safe" as more "a usually accepted kind of risk for
platform enablement". And since it caused misunderstanding let us document
this now, to avoid the same misunderstanding to happen again in the future.

Hence I've created [2] as a wiki page documenting this case.
I would now ask the SRU team for a review, discussion and hopefully
eventually sign-off to acknowledge this case and add its link to the known
special cases [3].

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenVMToolsUpdates
[3]:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Documentation_for_Special_Cases

-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Director of Engineering, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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