After improving on what we have found triggered by the first SRU review this is ready again. Changes: - Despite being an MRE in general all associated individual bugs have full SRU templates now. - maintainers correctly updated - The change to the vgauth Dependencies is now safer
That said, this is uploaded to Bionic/Cosmic unapproved again and waiting for SRU Team re-review. ** Description changed: [Impact] * Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors. * This is not backporting a single fix, but the version of a latter Ubuntu release [Test Case] * TL;DR is "use open-vm-tools" but that can be quite complex for the variety of potential Host versions. * VMWare itself took ownership of verifying these backports and will test the same bits from a PPA and the SRU for the official "ack" * We tried upgrading and the setup that I had available, everybody that has different setups is invited to test theirs. * In general I recommend to give this some extra time in -proposed to see if anybody comes up with issues on this. [Regression Potential] * It is a new version which might contain new issues, and other than in most MRE cases this isn't a just a stable-release (Of course we are not switching major releases, but also no pure fix release). * As agreed back when processing bug 1741390 the real verification of open-vm-tools for having the test matrix and project ownership is on VMWare which verified this from [1] already. [Other Info] * After bug 1741390 was sort of first of its kind we do this on a once-per-cycle schedule with bug 1784638 beign the last one. The intention is to get regular updates not only into new -dev releases - but also as SRU to the latest LTS under term [2] "Long Term Support releases - we regularly want to enable new hardware" being "virtual hardware" in - this case. + but also as SRU to the latest LTS under term [2] "Long Term Support + releases we regularly want to enable new hardware" being "virtual + hardware" in this case. + * Associated bugs being part of the backport - while overall this is + a MRE we can/want to discuss and verify these sub-cases individually + to ensure the SRU is sane and to help the SRU team to understand the + scope. + Those bugs have individual SRU templates even thou this overall + is an MRE. + - bug 1807441 + - bug 1814832 + - bug 1818473 + - bug 1804287 [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3617 [2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases --- There is a new Upstream version available. https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-10.3.5 We left 10.3.5 some time in 19.04 to see if any issues come up, but none appeared. So lets do the backport to the LTSes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813944 Title: Backport recent release 10.3.5 to latest LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1813944/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
