The build is kind of messy, as upstream moved some sources around and building that "nicely" required features in debhelper only avaialble in later Ubuntu versions. It failed a few times now and this week is really bad in terms of free time for this :-/
Also we discussed a potential SRU into Xenial a bit more and it came out as rather unlikely - as we really lack a way to check for regressions on a vast array of VMWare ESXi versions. If I get a build running on my weekend I might prep something for the backports pocket (which is opt in and therefore not under the same constraints as the SRU), but I doubt I could do that on a regular schedule to keep it always up to date. For the "I need to be totally in sync with the host" it might come down as a case for the host provided tools still - despite the kb article declaring the OS vendor content as preferred. I wonder about the mentioned "VMware provides assistance to operating system vendors and communities with the integration" as I would not know at all where/how. The package is on community level support, but if VMWare itself would step up and maintain it (as they are who can check and populate [1] against the new version) that would be great. Yet I'd not expect you to get a great answer if you open up a support ticket for that, but who knows - you might try. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741390 Title: Package two years out of date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1741390/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
