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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-drivers-common in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819207 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) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1819207/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
