I'm resorting to this venue only because the Debian package maintainers of open-vm-tools do not even classify their own bug reports, much less actually respond to them, much less actually produce a package based on anything later than 8.4.2, even for non-stable release branches. The obvious conclusion is that they have just vanished, and their "bosses" have failed to notice, because they don't seem to have replaced them.
The result is that there is no working DKMS, and their source package Debian package fails to build by any other means, such as module-assistant, on any recent kernel, because their source tree is so old. If you do have any contacts within the Debian community, I appeal to you to bring this situation to their attention in any way you can, perhaps more diplomatically than I can. If developers feel entitled to be either rude or indifferent to ordinary end-users, I reserve the right to return the favor. Given the internal politics of the Debian organization, incompetent or unproductive developers will be allowed to do absolutely nothing for a minimum of one and a half years, and will then be quietly bypassed by a "non-maintainer upload". If I were capable of doing this, I would have already. Instead, I am using the Oneiric packages on Debian Sid. Their only inadequacy is the incompleteness of the initialization scripts, an obstacle I can surmount. All linux distros, but especially Debian and Ubuntu, need to do a much better job writing initialization scripts (something the generic open-vm-tools package on SourceForge intentionally do not provide). Distro package maintainers evidently do not actually *read* the OpenVM Packaging wiki before making packages, when they *do* make packages. In fairness, you have not seem to have updated it in years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ open-vm-tools-discuss mailing list open-vm-tools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/open-vm-tools-discuss
