[...] > Please note that the related open-vm-tools-desktop package also needs to be > kept at the same version as open-vm-tools. As I mentioned we're using > VMware's "Horizon View" product so I require this also. > Do I need to raise a bug against that package also?
The source package open-vm-tools which I thrown in a test backport here builds all the binary packages you mentioned, so open-vm-tools-desktop is already in the ppa. > > I linked open-vm-tools version 10.2.0 as it is the stable latest available. > My thinking is that if an update is necessary (and with the testing that > involves) why not go to the latest now?! Sure eventually we might go for that. But usually for any such work you'd not go ahead of the latest available version - otherwise people upgrading from former Ubuntu releases would downgrade the package. For the current level of "giving it a try and evaluate" 10.1.15 is just as good. > > Could you please clarify this: > " > The maintainer scripts have not a lot (actually none) version dependent > special cases that sometimes wreaking havok for such backports. > " That mostly is a note to myself that there is not a lot of special magic making these backports harder, sorry for being misleading. TL;DR - Note: it has none of the bad stuff -- 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 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1741390 Title: Package two years out of date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1741390/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list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
