Backport open-vm-tools to version 11.0.5

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Hi, the plan is - as done every cycle and agreed in past discussions - to do that once Focal releases.

That allows multiple changes/updates in the current development release and just one SRU of the update to the LTS.

That would be in ~1 month from now, if there are external reasons this is needed faster please explain and we can consider an earlier bump.

@Yuhua - as usual there is a preliminary build in a PPA at [1].
I'd appreciate if you could pre-sniff them before the SRU Team takes a look and accepts them to -proposed for the final verification.

MPs are up at [2][3]

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3990/
[2]: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/381161
[3]: https://code.launchpad.net/~paelzer/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/381162

    It works well when do sanity check for updated open-vm-tools 11.0.5 from [1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3990/

       Check items:
           * install / upgrade open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop(for desktop environment)
           * check tools version
           * tools service and VGAuth service are running when install / upgrade open-vm-tools
           * tools service and VGAuth service are running after install / upgrade and reboot guestOS
           * uninstall open-vm-tools
           * check "ip address", "os name" and "guest id" when install/uninstall open-vm-tools

       in following VMs:
           * ubuntu-19.10-Desktop-amd64
           * ubuntu-18.04.4-live-server-amd64
           * ubuntu-18.04.4-Desktop-amd64

Thanks Yuhua for the sanity check.

I'll wait until my team had time for a review and then will propose it to the SRU Team.

MPs approved, PPA prechecked.
Uploaded to Bionic/Eoan for the SRU team to evaluate.

Hello vmware-gos-Yuhua, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into eoan-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.19.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-eoan to verification-done-eoan. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-eoan. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Hello vmware-gos-Yuhua, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

It works well when do sanity check for open-vm-tools 11.0.5 in -proposed repository in ubuntu 18.04 desktop and ubuntu 19.10 server.

@Yuhua,
Glad that the sanity check is fine.

Will there be a more extensive check and more in details tests results coming that will be added to the bug later?

We have couple of layers of testing on different Linux distros including Ubuntu before releasing the open-vm-tools 11.0.5. For this integration, the testing would be sufficient, there's no extensive testing.

Ok, thanks Yuhua for adding these details.

Per the extensive pre-release 11.0.5 tests and the sanity checks of the same on the builds in proposed I'm setting the state to verified then.

P.S. The SRU Team usually wants the extensive tests to happen on exactly the builds that are in -proposed. If there is any chance to run them that would be great to provide extra confidence before releaseing that.

This is all green and aging for 15 days, I think it could be released or am I missing something?

I think ideally we want the testing to be done on the exact built packages. That being said, I think we aged this enough and I think we can release it as is, though with less confidence.

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.19.10.1

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open-vm-tools (2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.19.10.1) eoan; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.0.5 (LP: #1868012)

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:33:50 +0100

The verification of the Stable Release Update for open-vm-tools has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1

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open-vm-tools (2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.0.5 (LP: #1868012)
    - d/rules: Revert "Enable all compiler errors again" for the older compiler

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:33:50 +0100

This was a backport, but not an MRE, while cleaning up ambiguity I'm fixing the title of this old bug.