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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