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36. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* Merging upstream version 2013.04.16-1098359.
  - Fixes building on Saucy kernels (LP: #1175295).
* Stop DKMS from building vmci & vsock modules
  - Modules are now in the kernel.
* debian/patches:
  - Removing procps.patch, not needed anymore.
  - Removed 0005-kernel-38-fixes.patch
    + No longer needed.
  - Renumbering patches.
* debian/rules:
  - Added Wno-error=unused-local-typedefs to CLFAGS
    + Suppresses build errors with GCC 4.8.
* Items merged from Debian:
  (From 2:9.2.2-893683-8 release)
  - Adding patch from Mathias Krause <email address hidden> to fix
    kernel stack memory leack in vsock module [CVE-2013-3237]

35. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* Ubuntu-specific Changes
  - debian/rules: Added LIBS field with -lpthread.
    + Fixes package compile failure for Raring and future Ubuntu Releases.

* Items merged from Debian unstable:
  (From 2:9.2.2-893683-1 release)
  - Adding remote_fs dependency in initscript.
  - Correcting architecture fields in control.

  (From 2:9.2.2-893683-2 release)
  - Removing init order to network.

  (From 2:9.2.2-893683-4 release)
  - Removing init order to network also on start.

  (From 2:9.2.2-893683-5 release)
  - Updating to standards version 3.9.4.
  - Updating year in copyright file.
  - Prefixing patches with 4 digits for consistency.
  - Tightening diff headers in patches.
  - Dropping dpkg-source compression levels.

  (From 2:9.2.2-893683-6 release)
  - Remove all references to Daniel's old email address.

34. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* debian/patches: Rename 05-vmhgfs.patch to 05-kernel-38-fixes.patch.
  - Since it contains fixes to more than 1 file.
  - Add vmci fixes recommended from upstream
    + Will be added in next release (whenever that is).

33. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* Merging upstream version 2012.12.26-958366.

* Added 04-dkms-vmsync.patch: An additional to 03-dkms.patch
  - Deletes lines involving vmsync, adjust other numbers.
  - Module compile still fails if we don't add this patch.
  - This keeps the 03-dkms.patch unmodified.

* Added 05-vmhgfs.patch:
  - Fixes vmxnet compile issues with 3.8 kernel (LP: #1100096)

* Stop dkms from building vmblock module.
  - vmblock-fuse takes care of this now.
    + Modules still build, but this gets rid of the vmblock-related
      warning message

32. By Nate Muench (Mink)

Merging upstream version 2012.10.14-874563.

31. By Nate Muench (Mink)

Merging upstream version 2012.10.14-874563.

30. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* 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.

29. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* 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

28. By Adam Conrad

* 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.

27. By Nate Muench (Mink)

* 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.

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