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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1819207 Title: Add Modaliases to open-vm-tools-desktop to allow automatic installation by ubuntu-drivers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1819207/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
