Change logs for open-vm-tools source package in Quantal

  • open-vm-tools (2012.05.21-724730-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low
    
      * debian/open-vm-tools.init: Add if statement to check for vmxnet module,
        and if found, remove pcnet32 module.
      * debian/control: Remove open-vm-source package.
        - Only needed to add back open-vm-toolbox for Oneiric->Precise upgrade.
    
      * Items merged from Debian unstable:
        - Switching to xz compression.
        - Adding sleep during restart in initscript.
        - Removing old dpkg trigger for update-initramfs.
        - Updating GPL boilerplate in copyright file.
     -- Nate Muench <email address hidden>   Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:09:30 -0500
  • open-vm-tools (2012.05.21-724730-0ubuntu1) quantal; urgency=low
    
      * Merging upstream version 2012.05.21-724730.
        - Fixes building against the current Quantal kernel. (LP: #1000344)
        - Fixes Quantal installation issues. (LP: #1019031)
    
      * Sync with Debian
        - Updating to debhelper version 9.
        - Updating to standards version 3.9.3.
        - Updating copyright file machine-readable format version 1.0.
        - Building without multiarch paths for now
     -- Nate Muench <email address hidden>   Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:59:51 -0500
  • open-vm-tools (2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu2) quantal; urgency=low
    
      * Build-depend on the new libprocps0-dev instead of libproc-dev.
      * Change the way we export -Wno-deprecated-declarations to make
        the package no longer FTBFS with the latest dpkg/debhelper.
      * Snag the 02-procps.patch patch from Debian for the proc rename.
     -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden>   Wed, 20 Jun 2012 11:44:25 -0600
  • open-vm-tools (2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=high
    
      * Merge latest upstream git tag. Fixes building on Precise
        (LP: #898289, LP: #905612)
    
      * Items merged from Debian unstable:
        - debian/control:
          + open-vm-tools recommends open-vm-dkms. (LP: #598933)
          + open-vm-tools now suggests open-vm-toolbox. (LP: #604998)
        (From 2011.08.21-471295-1 release)
        - Updating maintainer and uploaders fields.
        - Removing vcs fields.
        - Removing references to Daniel's old email address.
        - Updating years in copyright file.
        - Updating to standards version 3.9.2.
        - Updating to debhelper version 8.
        - Switching to source format 3.0 (quilt).
        - Removing manual chrpath setting.
        - Removing exclusion from plugins from debhelper shlibs.
        - Rediffing kvers.patch.
        (From 2011.09.23-491607-1 release)
        - Marking binary architecture-dependend packages as linux and kfreebsd
        only.
        - Removing liburiparser-dev from build-depends as upstream dropped
        unity support.
        - Building with libproc-dev on amd64 again.
        - Dropping disabling of dnet support.
        (From 2011.09.23-491607-2 release)
        - Adding doxygen to build-depends for api documentation.
        - Adding libcunit1-dev to build-depends for test suites.
        - Minimizing rules file.
        - Adding open-vm-tools-dev package, containing only the api
          documentation for now.
        (From 2011.09.23-491607-3 release)
        - Sorting overrides in rules alphabetically.
        - Compacting copyright file.
        - Adding udev rule to set timeout for vmware scsi devices
        (From 2011.12.20-562307-1 release)
        - Adding patch to correct typo in upstreams dkms configuration
    
      * Remaining Changes:
        - Remove Stable part of version numbering.
        - debian folder:
          + Re-added open-vm-dkms.postinst & open-vm-dkms.prerm.
            * Allows dkms modules to compile upon installation.
        - debian/control:
          + Re-add open-vm-source and make into a transitional package
            for open-vm-toolbox.
          + Return dependancies that were moved to open-vm-tools back to
            open-vm-toolbox.
        - debian/rules and debian/open-vm-toolbox.lintian-overrides:
          + Make vmware-user-suid-wrapper suid-root
        - debian/rules:
          + Added CFLAGS field with -Wno-deprecated-declarations
            * Will suppress issues with glib 2.31 or later.
          + Add line to copy vmware-xdg-detect-de into place.
          + Install vmware-user.desktop through toolbox package.
        - debian/open-vm-tools.init:
          + Re-add 'modprobe [-r] vmblock'.
          + Add 'modprobe [-r] vmxnet'.
            * Incase it's not loaded during boot.
          + Remove and re-add pcnet32 module
            * Will be done before (remove) and after (readd) vmxnet module
              is added.
            * If vmxnet doesn't exist (aka modules fail to build), pcnet32 can be
              still used for network connectivity.
            * Workaround until a better fix can be done.
        - Re-add gnome-session to debian/local/xautostart.conf
        - Manpages removed (from debian/manpages):
          + vmmemctl.9
          + vmxnet3.9
          + Remove references to manpages that have been removed.
     -- Nate Muench <email address hidden>   Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:09:45 -0600