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30. By Nate Muench (Mink) on 2012-08-03

* 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.

Merged branch lp:~n-muench/ubuntu/quantal/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools.may2.sid-sync

29. By Nate Muench (Mink) on 2012-06-20

* 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

Merged branch lp:~n-muench/ubuntu/quantal/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools.may-merge.final2a

Bug #1000344: open-vm-dkms 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1: open-vm-tools kernel module failed to build [error: implicit declaration of function ‘d_alloc_root’]

Bug #1019031: open-vm-dkms fails to install because of dkms

Bug #1026836: Upgrade 12.04 - 12.10 - open-vm-dkms - open-vm-tools kernel module failed to build 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu2: open-vm-tools kernel module failed to build

28. By Adam Conrad on 2012-06-20

* 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) on 2012-01-23

* 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.

26. By Colin Watson on 2011-11-22

Rebuild for libicu48.

25. By Nate Muench (Mink) on 2011-07-22

* Merge latest upstream git tag. Fixes Building on Oneiric
  (LP: #776103, LP: #807903)

* The Toolbox (GUI) has been removed.
* Changes in debian folder:
  - Contents of open-vm-toolbox.lintian-overrides have been moved to
    open-vm-tools.lintian-overrides.
  - The contents of open-vm-toolbox.manpages (excluding the first line,
    which relates to the Toolbox) have been moved to open-vm-tools.manpages.
* Changes in debian/control:
  - Convert open-vm-toolbox into a transitional package.
  - All dependencies for toolbox have been moved to open-vm-tools package.
  - Changed architecture for open-vm-toolbox package to all.
  - Added Replaces and Breaks fields to open-vm-tools.
* Changes in debian/rules:
  - Commented out references to the Toolbox (GUI), that no longer exist
    in the package itself.
  - Remaining references changed from open-vm-toolbox to open-vm-tools.
  - Added -Wno-unused-but-set-variable to CFLAGS to suppress remaining
    issues with GCC 4.6.0 or later.
* Files removed in debian/manpages:
  - vmmemctl.9 (Component no longer in package)
  - vmware-toolbox.1 (Component removed in this release)
  - vmxnet3.9 (vmxnet3 is now included in kernel itself)

24. By Christian Titze on 2011-07-08

Updated /debian/manpages/vmhgfs.9: Typo fixed and further information
was added (LP: #572335)

23. By Evan Broder on 2011-05-07

Revert debian/rules change in 2011.03.28-387002-0ubuntu2 and instead
remove debian/open-vm-toolbox.links, which was shadowing the original
/etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop file.

22. By Serge Hallyn on 2011-04-29

debian/rules: copy the vmware-user.desktop into place. (LP: #772837)

21. By Serge Hallyn on 2011-03-31

* Merge latest upstream git tag. This has the unlocked_ioctl change
  needed to fix dkms build failures (LP: #727342)
* Changes in debian/rules:
  - work around a bug in toolbox/Makefile, where install-exec-hook is
    not happening. This needs to get fixed the right way.
  - don't install 'vmware-user' which seems to no longer exist
  - move /etc/xdg into open-vm-toolbox (which should be done using .install)
* debian/open-vm-tools.init: add 'modprobe [-r] vmblock'. (LP: #332323)
* debian/rules and debian/open-vm-toolbox.lintian-overrides:
  - Make vmware-user-suid-wrapper suid-root (LP: #332323)