[Bug 1819207] Re: Add Modaliases to open-vm-tools-desktop to allow automatic installation by ubuntu-drivers

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Hi Jean-Baptiste,
I like the change and the automatism it will bring, but we have had some efforts to get Debian and us in Sync and this seems a non resolvable Delta for now.
The Debian Maintainer is smart and fast and therefore it was always great for us to have this package being a sync.

In this particular case dh_modalias [1] and co are a Ubuntu only thing for now - so we can't bring it there as-is. I wonder if you could also build a version using [2] for the d/rules changes.
Unfortunately I have no great suggestion for the d/control change as dh_moalias doesn#t exist in Debian at all. [3] as a similar discussion didn't lead to a "this is hwo you do it" and while [4] is working it confused enough people that I'd appreciate a smoother solution for anything implemented new (unless there is no other way).

I'd appreciate if you'd at least try to find a way to make this Debian
compatible to drop the Delta in the long run (maybe you know there is a
post-buster dh_modalias activity in Debian or anything like it - or you
know of other such cases and how they were resolved?)

That said, I don't want to too be negative here. I reviewed the change/builds/ppa and I'm +1 on the suggested change for Ubuntu for the time being. You'll have to make this an FFE [5] bug to be allowed to upload it thou.
Will you do that Jean-Baptiste or do you need me to take over here?

[1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/dh_modaliases.1.html
[2]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebVendorVariable
[3]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2012/02/msg00710.html
[4]: https://salsa.debian.org/qemu-team/qemu/blob/debian-unstable/debian/rules#L290
[5]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

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Title:
  Add Modaliases to open-vm-tools-desktop to allow automatic
  installation by ubuntu-drivers

Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  On Ubuntu Desktop, we want to install automatically at installation
  time open-vm-tools-desktop and its dependencies to provide an improved
  user experience on first boot after installation of the guest, and
  provide an easy way to install the drivers after installation if they
  have not been installed at installation time.

  It means adding an XB-Modaliases field to the control file for the
  record 'open-vm-tools-desktop' so ubuntu-drivers can detect the
  packages to install when running in a VMware guest.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
  Package: open-vm-tools-desktop (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.19.0-13.14-generic 4.19.20
  Uname: Linux 4.19.0-13-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu23
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Fri Mar  8 20:02:49 2019
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-15 (1697 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140520)
  SourcePackage: open-vm-tools
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2018-03-24 (349 days ago)

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