Hi, > VGAuth service was disabled in open-vm-tools 9.4.6 included in Debian 7.9 > & 7.10 & 8.2 & 8.3 & 8.4. This needs to enabled as soon as possible > because it makes open-vm-tools in Debian less usable than VMware Tools.
first you should realize that you should not treat Debian point releases as a different release on its own. This was the case for Debian 3 and 4. For you there should never be a visible difference between Debian 8.1 and 8.4. open-vm-tools 9.4.6 was basically built with a simple 'configure; make; make install' - and looking at the build logs like https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=open-vm-tools&arch=i386&ver=2%3A9.4.6-1770165-8&stamp=1423826483 you will see, that configure did not complain about missing things, it also just did not build vgauth. So I could not know something is missing. To avoid such things, please test open-vm-tools in Debian testing and/or unstable. There is a backport of the last 10.0.7 release in wheezy-backports and jessie-backports. Please use it instead of the package from the release. Also if you are interested in using the latest open-vm-tools version in a stable, please use backports. If possible I'll backport the current version to stable and oldstable. In stable Debian releases we'll only add bugfixes, no new features. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz Debian GNU/Linux Developer http://bzed.de http://www.debian.org GPG Fingerprint: ECA1 E3F2 8E11 2432 D485 DD95 EB36 171A 6FF9 435F
