open-vm-tools: unversioned breaks on transitional package

[Andy Whitcroft]

While testing DKMS packages in ADT we attempt to install all of the packages produced by the open-vm-tools package. This fails when installing the open-vm-source which is a transitional package for open-vm-toolbox:

I: Installing binary package open-vm-source
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 open-vm-source : Depends: open-vm-toolbox but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Package open-vm-source failed to install

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This only exists in precise. Closing out for wily.

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

Hello Andy, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1.2 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 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, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

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

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

Confirmed unable to install open-vm-source before the fix, and able to do so after -proposed was enabled.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1.2

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open-vm-tools (2011.12.20-562307-0ubuntu1.2) precise; urgency=medium

  * Make open-vm-toolbox Breaks:/Replaces: versioned to ensure
    installability of the open-vm-source transtional package.
    (LP: #1499352)

 -- Andy Whitcroft <email address hidden> Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:21:58 +0100

[Chris J Arges (arges)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for open-vm-tools has completed successfully and the package has now been 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.