Thank you for your explanation - and even before so I was guessing just that. I've been there as well in the past.
I understand you estimation of: I'm not convinced that older versions of VMware tools are more "stable" I've been there as well (for other projects), but hard lessons learned (on my side) boils down on my favorite https://xkcd.com/1172/ There are certain exceptions, but these follow [2] in my former post and are generally projects adopted by Canonical in Main [1]. Long story short, backports as suggested are just the right way to do this. I'll stay subscribed to support you when and where I can. [1]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#The_Four_Main_Repositories -- 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 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741390 Title: Package two years out of date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1741390/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
