Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed

To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, 1014925@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Arnaud Rebillout <arnaudr@kali.org>
Subject: Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed
From: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:17:35 +0200
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Reply-to: Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>, 1014925@bugs.debian.org
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* Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
[..] 
> Right.  So this seems like a botched transition - fuse3 should have
> taken over the fuse binary package but instead each reverse-dependency
> has to be updated.  I agree it would make sense in the short term to
> force fuse3 installation.
[..]
> Thank you for pointing out the problem.  Even if the exact issue
> doesn't occur in Debian, we should sort out fuse vs fuse3.

I would imagine #918984 is related.

Chris

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- Bug#1014925: hw-detect: Fails to install open-vm-tools if fuse is already installed
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