Re: Bug#606327: vmmemctl missing in squeeze
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On 12/09/2010 01:05 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 12/09/2010 12:54 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> Yes. Go ahead. If you want to apply some backported fixes, please let us
>> know
>> first.
>
> for clarity sake, it's not about 'backporting' fixes, it's about
> completely replacing the existing open-vm-tools upstream version with
> another one.
Why do you want to replace a recent version of open-vm-tools (which usually
comes with a LOT of bugfixes by a pretty old version just to introduce the
removed module again? It seems you're not willing to maintain this package
properly, otherwise you'd look at your git repository (I'm sure it contains
upstream's git, too) and revert the commit(s) which removed the vmmemctl module.
Then - if you would care - would update the module to the latest version on
kernel.org. And then you would test your changes properly on a VMware
installation. Yes, I'm talking about proper testing, for example in some VMs on
a ESX machine. Oh, you don't have ESX? I heard you can download it for free, at
least for testing purposes. No hard tasks, so I fail to understand why we always
run into RC bugs whenever we look at a new version of this package. I'd suggest
you give the maintenance of open-vm-tools to somebody who actually cares about
it. Or has the proper time to do so.
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