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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #1275656
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 1275656

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Robert C Jennings (rcj) wrote : Re: [Bug 1275656] Re: open-vm-dkms 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1: open-vm-tools kernel module failed to build

> The other piece that is missing is that zerofree needs to be SRU'd to
> main as well. Otherwise, open-vm-tools-lts-trusty won't install purely
> from main.

Not sure that promotion to main is required for that. The zerofree
package is recommended but not required.

That recommendation came from debian bug
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=472799 because someone
thought it would be useful to VMWare users looking to shrink their disk
images. I'd argue that 'Suggests:' is a better choice as the
relationship is weak; maybe we can do that if the 'Recommends:' is
causing problems. Or just promote zerofree is no one cares.