Branches for Precise

Author: Nate Muench (Mink)
Revision Date: 2012-01-23 16:09:45 UTC

* 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.

Author: Luke Yelavich
Revision Date: 2012-01-25 00:24:26 UTC

Merge from lp:~n-muench/ubuntu/precise/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-precise.sid-sync1a