** Description changed: + [Impact] + + * The package correctly fixed a non multiarch path, but we missed + that some depending SW might have mad assumptions on the old paths. + One such SW is cloud-init which in certain cases now fails to detect + and configure vmware correctly. + + * In the long run (next Debian and 22.04) we will keep only the new + paths. But for 21.10 time is too short and even more so for the SRUs + that we regularly do back to at least the last LTS. + There we want to mitigate the impact by adding a compat link on the + old path. + + [Test Plan] + + * TBD discussion ongoing + + [Where problems could occur] + + * Since we do not remove, but add a link (that exactly matches the + formerly used path) I'm not too concerned. The issue I can think of + would be e.g. security policies that prevent .so files to load through + symlinks or anything like that. But in that case still the upload + would not further degrade things, it would just not fix it. + Test wise this is all about guest customizations and VMware plugin and + VMware as usual will do checks for that when this is in verification. + + [Other Info] + + * Down the road we still want to drop that path, it is only added now to + temporarily mitigate such issues. Therefore we do NOT want to have that + in 22.04 for a long time, and will most likely drop it there soon to + spot further issues with it. + * For the same reason I'm also not uploading it to Debian via + https://salsa.debian.org/vmware-packaging-team/pkg-open-vm-tools/-/merge_requests/11 + + + ------ + Problem: the path of plugin libdeployPkgPlugin.so of open-vm-tools is changed and guest customization will fail for ubuntu 21.10 beta image Description: Ubuntu 21.10 have new open-vm-tools 11.3.0. with this new open-vm-tools, the plugin libdeployPkgPlugin.so is put to directory /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmsvc/. In previous open-vm-tools version (such as 11.2.5), the the plugin libdeployPkgPlugin.so is put to directory /usr/lib/open-vm- tools/plugins/vmsvc/ - - The path change of plugin libdeployPkgPlugin.so will cause the guest customization failure. + The path change of plugin libdeployPkgPlugin.so will cause the guest + customization failure.
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