[Bug 1813944] Re: Backport recent release 10.3.5 to latest LTS

[Andreas Hasenack]

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
-  * Without SRUing the never version users get issues running on more
-    recent hypervisors.
+  * Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more
+    recent hypervisors.
  
-  * This is not backporting a single fix, but the version of a latter
-    Ubuntu release
+  * This is not backporting a single fix, but the version of a latter
+    Ubuntu release
  
  [Test Case]
  
-  * TL;DR is "use open-vm-tools" but that can be quite complex for the
-    variety of potential Host versions.
-  * VMWare itself took ownership of verifying these backports and will test the same bits from a PPA and the SRU for the official "ack"
-  * We tried upgrading and the setup that I had available, everybody that
-    has different setups is invited to test theirs.
-  * In general I recommend to give this some extra time in -proposed to see if
-    anybody comes up with issues on this.
+  * TL;DR is "use open-vm-tools" but that can be quite complex for the
+    variety of potential Host versions.
+  * VMWare itself took ownership of verifying these backports and will test the same bits from a PPA and the SRU for the official "ack"
+  * We tried upgrading and the setup that I had available, everybody that
+    has different setups is invited to test theirs.
+  * In general I recommend to give this some extra time in -proposed to see if
+    anybody comes up with issues on this.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
-  * It is a new version which might contain new issues, and other than in
-    most MRE cases this isn't a just a stable-release (Of courese we are
-    not switching major releases, but also no pure fix release).
+  * It is a new version which might contain new issues, and other than in
+    most MRE cases this isn't a just a stable-release (Of courese we are
+    not switching major releases, but also no pure fix release).
  
-  * As agreed back when processing bug 1741390 the real verification of
-    open-vm-tools for having the test matrix and project ownership is on
-    VMWare which verified this from [1] already.
+  * As agreed back when processing bug 1741390 the real verification of
+    open-vm-tools for having the test matrix and project ownership is on
+    VMWare which verified this from [1] already.
  
  [Other Info]
  
-  * After bug 1741390 was sort of first of its kind we do this on a
-    once-per-cycle schedule with bug 1784638 beign the last one.
-    The intention is to get regular updates not only into new -dev releases
-    but also as SRU to the latest LTS under term [2] "Long Term Support releases
-    we regularly want to enable new hardware" being "virtual hardware" in
-    this case.
+  * After bug 1741390 was sort of first of its kind we do this on a
+    once-per-cycle schedule with bug 1784638 beign the last one.
+    The intention is to get regular updates not only into new -dev releases
+    but also as SRU to the latest LTS under term [2] "Long Term Support releases
+    we regularly want to enable new hardware" being "virtual hardware" in
+    this case.
  
  [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3617
  [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases
  
  ---
  
  There is a new Upstream version available.
-   https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-10.3.5
+   https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-10.3.5
  
  We left 10.3.5 some time in 19.04 to see if any issues come up, but none appeared.
  So lets do the backport to the LTSes.

** Description changed:

  [Impact]
  
   * Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more
     recent hypervisors.
  
   * This is not backporting a single fix, but the version of a latter
     Ubuntu release
  
  [Test Case]
  
   * TL;DR is "use open-vm-tools" but that can be quite complex for the
     variety of potential Host versions.
   * VMWare itself took ownership of verifying these backports and will test the same bits from a PPA and the SRU for the official "ack"
   * We tried upgrading and the setup that I had available, everybody that
     has different setups is invited to test theirs.
   * In general I recommend to give this some extra time in -proposed to see if
     anybody comes up with issues on this.
  
  [Regression Potential]
  
   * It is a new version which might contain new issues, and other than in
-    most MRE cases this isn't a just a stable-release (Of courese we are
+    most MRE cases this isn't a just a stable-release (Of course we are
     not switching major releases, but also no pure fix release).
  
   * As agreed back when processing bug 1741390 the real verification of
     open-vm-tools for having the test matrix and project ownership is on
     VMWare which verified this from [1] already.
  
  [Other Info]
  
   * After bug 1741390 was sort of first of its kind we do this on a
     once-per-cycle schedule with bug 1784638 beign the last one.
     The intention is to get regular updates not only into new -dev releases
     but also as SRU to the latest LTS under term [2] "Long Term Support releases
     we regularly want to enable new hardware" being "virtual hardware" in
     this case.
  
  [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3617
  [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases
  
  ---
  
  There is a new Upstream version available.
    https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-10.3.5
  
  We left 10.3.5 some time in 19.04 to see if any issues come up, but none appeared.
  So lets do the backport to the LTSes.

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