Version numbers in backports wrong

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

[Impact]

 * We generally backport the latest version to the latest LTS since years.
   The last one had a mistake.

   We usually use versions like
     2:10.3.10-1~ubuntu0.18.04.2
   Which is fine, the last round of updates for 11.0 used a different pattern thou:
     2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1

   That is fine between (older)->Bionic->Eoan
   But will fail Bionic/Eoan -> Focal and (doesn't but might) cause dependency issues.

   We are backporting 11.1 right now anyway - doing this with the right version for Focal will:
   - keep Groovy -> focal intact
   - repair bionic/eoan -> focal

[Test Case]

 * run dpkg --compare-versions and check if it goes forward:
     dpkg --compare-versions 2:11.0.5-4 gt-nl 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1
   this was bad, it will then be
     B->F:
     dpkg --compare-versions 2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1 gt-nl 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1
     F->G:
     dpkg --compare-versions 2:11.1.0-2 gt-nl 2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1

[Regression Potential]

 * This just ensures the proper upgrade paths work. I see no likely regressions, if anything then
   a system that was not yet upgrading due to the issue now doing so might run into problems that
   it formerly would also have had, but now due to the upgrade triggers them. But no regression
   due to the change itself.

[Other Info]

 * n/a

[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

Uploaded to focal-unapproved for the SRU Team to take a look at it.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Hello Christian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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[Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer)]

New ordering will be correct:
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1 | bionic-updates | source, amd64, i386

 open-vm-tools | 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.19.10.1 | eoan-updates | source, amd64, i386

 open-vm-tools | 2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1 | focal-proposed | source

 open-vm-tools | 2:11.1.0-2 | groovy

The odd one in between was
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.0.5-4 | focal | source, amd64
breaking the upgrade chain in regard to
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1 | bionic-updates | source, amd64, i386

Verified, version numbers are good now as in -proposed.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1

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open-vm-tools (2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * Update to latest release v11.1.0 (LP: #1877672)
    - among many fixes this also brings the sdmp plugin (LP: #1877678)
    - fixes upgrade issues due to bad package versions (LP: #1884483)
    - Revert "Add net-tools as dependency again." as we don't want to
      modify the focal seed/ISO content without a real issue behind it.

open-vm-tools (2:11.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Christian Ehrhardt ]
  * [4d69c6a] d/p/lp-1877678-: fixes for the sdmp plugin that is new in 11.1.0.
    Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden>
  * [38bd11e] d/control: change net-tools dependency to iproute2.
    Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden>

  [ Bernd Zeimetz ]
  * [c15c08d] Add net-tools as dependency again.
    Various scripts still use ifconfig.

open-vm-tools (2:11.1.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Christian Ehrhardt ]
  * [6b7d31d] New upstream version 11.1.0
    (Closes: #960061) (LP: #1877672)
  * [3ece93a14] d/control, d/rules, d//*sdmp*: add service discovery plugin (sdmp)
    (Closes: #960065) (LP: #1877678)
    Thanks to Oliver Kurth for the initial contribution, changes in addition:
    - d/control: improve description
    - rules fix whitespace damage
    - maintscripts: fixed some whihtespace damage
    - maintscripts: fixed maintainer scripts per skeletons from dh_make
    - maintscripts: added the service-active-before-restart check to postinst
      as well (was only in rm)
    - maintscripts: use deb-systemd-invoke
    - d/control: add further dependencies used in sdmp
  * [e0c9fbc14] remove patches applied upstream in 11.1.0
    - d/p/4ee0bd3c8_Rectify-a-log-spew-in-vmsvc-logging-vmware-vmsvc-root.log
    - d/p/89c0d4445_GitHub-Issue-367.-Remove-references-to-deprecated-G_INLINE_FUNC
    - d/p/f1f0b812e_add-appinfo-plugin
  * [f4cf14931] d/rules: drop perm fixup of vm-support as it is properly
    in /usr/bin/ now
  * [d71e99e33] lintian: add overrides for intentional cases
  * [ba27a73eb] d/p/debian/vmxnet_fix_kernel_4.7.patch: drop unused patch
  * [7488e6e2f] d/copyright: fix tab in text

 -- Christian Ehrhardt <email address hidden> Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:40:58 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

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