open-vm-tools moved from `main` to `universe` in focal-updates

[Simon Déziel]

open-vm-tools has always been in `main` in previous and later releases so it's weird that what's in focal-updates is in `universe`. If there is good reason for the move I couldn't find it and apologize in advance.

$ rmadison open-vm-tools
 open-vm-tools | 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6 | trusty | source, amd64, i386
 open-vm-tools | 2:9.4.0-1280544-5ubuntu6.4 | trusty-updates | source, amd64, i386
 open-vm-tools | 2:10.0.7-3227872-2ubuntu1 | xenial | source, amd64, i386
 open-vm-tools | 2:10.2.0-3~ubuntu0.16.04.1 | xenial-updates | source, amd64, i386
 open-vm-tools | 2:10.2.0-3ubuntu3 | bionic | source, amd64, i386
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.0.5-4 | focal | source, amd64
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.0.5-4ubuntu0.18.04.1 | bionic-updates | source, amd64, i386
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 | focal-updates | source
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 | focal-updates/universe | amd64, arm64
 open-vm-tools | 2:11.3.5-1ubuntu4 | jammy | source, amd64, arm64
 open-vm-tools | 2:12.0.5-2 | kinetic | source, amd64, arm64

$ apt-cache policy open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2
  Version table:
     2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
     2:11.0.5-4 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Thanks for reporting this Simon. I tried to figure this out by myself and I did not find the reason for that as well. Here you can see the publishing history

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/amd64/open-vm-tools

and in the first Jammy SRU (2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1) it was moved to universe. I pinged ubuntu-archive on #ubuntu-release to understand what happened but no reply so far. I am subscribing ubuntu-archive as well.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I believe this traces back to open-vm-tools 2:11.1.0-2~ubuntu20.04.1 which introduced a new open-vm-tools-sdmp package, and an archive admin (in this case, Seb) put that package to universe as part of accepting the new package; and inadvertently ran a queue override command that moved all the related binaries to universe.

Moving open-vm-tools{,-dev,-desktop} back to main.

Override component to main
open-vm-tools 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 in focal amd64: universe/admin/extra/100% -> main
open-vm-tools 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 in focal arm64: universe/admin/extra/100% -> main
open-vm-tools-desktop 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 in focal amd64: universe/admin/extra/100% -> main
open-vm-tools-desktop 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 in focal arm64: universe/admin/extra/100% -> main
open-vm-tools-dev 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 in focal amd64: universe/devel/extra/100% -> main
open-vm-tools-dev 2:11.3.0-2ubuntu0~ubuntu20.04.2 in focal arm64: universe/devel/extra/100% -> main
6 publications overridden.

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

Excellent, thanks Steve and Lucas!