open-vm-tools 12.1.5 has been released

[John Wolfe]

[Impact]

 * Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more
   recent hypervisors - this is a case of [1] in the SRU policy.

 * Furthermore Upstream releases this as a collection of fixes which is
   usually worth it to pick up.

 * This is not backporting a single fix, but the version of a latter
   Ubuntu release.

[Test Case]

 * TL;DR is "use open-vm-tools" but that can be quite complex for the
   variety of potential Host versions.

 * VMWare itself took ownership of verifying these backports and will test
   the same bits from a PPA and the SRU for the official "ack"

 * Users are invited to test upgrading their own different setups.

 * In general we recommend giving this some extra time in -proposed to see
   if anybody uncovers issues.

[Regression Potential]

 * It is a new version which might contain new issues. This is being
   shipped in lunar-devel for some weeks, with no new bug reports filed.
 * There is an added build dependency for libabsl-dev. This is not known
   to cause any problems or regressions, but may unexpectedly enable
   functionality that had been missing before, thus issues related to
   abseil may be indicators of potential regressions.

[Other Info]

 * This includes a cherrypicked FTBFS fix from Debian to add a b-d on
   libabsl-dev, that is needed on jammy/kinetic. It does not FTBFS on
   lunar.
 * As agreed back when processing bug 1741390 the real verification of
   open-vm-tools for having the proper test matrix and project ownership
   is on VMWare.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Other_safe_cases

[Original Report]
open-vm-tools 12.1.5 was released on Nov. 29, 2022.

This release contains several fixes including:
  - The deployPkg plugin may prematurely reboot the guest VM before cloud-init
    has completed user data setup
  - A SIGSEGV may be encountered when a non-quiescing snapshot times out.
  - A number of Coverity reported issues have been addressed.

For complete details, see: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/releases/tag/stable-12.1.5

Release Notes are available at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.1.5/ReleaseNotes.md

The granular changes that have gone into the 12.1.5 release are in the ChangeLog at: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/stable-12.1.5/open-vm-tools/ChangeLog

Please rebase open-vm-tools to release 12.1.5 on supported Ubuntu releases as appropriate

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I can look at working on this.

If possible, please perform validation on LP: #1975767, so we can complete the backport of 12.1.0.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Debian has merged 12.1.5, and it has sync'd into Ubuntu lunar:

 open-vm-tools | 2:12.1.5-1 | lunar
 open-vm-tools | 2:12.1.5-3 | lunar-proposed

open-vm-tools (2:12.1.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [1e4d8a9] Remove libprocps-dev build-dep. (Closes: #1027271)

 -- Bernd Zeimetz <email address hidden> Tue, 03 Jan 2023 12:19:05 +0100

We will also be backporting this for jammy, so I've opened a task for that, but we'll probably file a separate MRE bug to track that work.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

removing reference to "MRE" in the subject because this is not a ratified micro-release exception by the SRU team.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into kinetic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.10.1 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 on 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-kinetic to verification-done-kinetic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-kinetic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Hello John, or anyone else affected,

Accepted open-vm-tools into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.1 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 on 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, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

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

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Yan Jin (yanjin-vmw)]

I have verified the open-vm-tools packages from the proposed repos:
1. Install and Test open-vm-tools_12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.1 on Ubuntu22.04.1(server) VM
2. Install and Test open-vm-tools_12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.10.1 & open-vm-tools-desktop_12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.10.1 on Ubuntu 22.10(desktop) VM

Thanks for your fixing

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

Thanks for verifying the bug, I updated the tags accordingly.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.10.1

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open-vm-tools (2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.10.1) kinetic; urgency=medium

  * Backport recent open-vm-tools release v12.1.5
    (LP: #1998558)
  * d/control: Add libabsl-dev as explicit build-dependency.
    - (Closes #1032305)

open-vm-tools (2:12.1.5-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [1e4d8a9] Remove libprocps-dev build-dep. (Closes: #1027271)

open-vm-tools (2:12.1.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [f450cf8] Fix building with gRPC 1.51+
    Thanks to Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) (Closes: #1025491)

open-vm-tools (2:12.1.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * [d4a64a2] New upstream version 12.1.5
  * [adcd7a9] Remove accidentally added patch backup files

open-vm-tools (2:12.1.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Debian Janitor ]
  * [2d8b9bb] Update lintian override info to new format on line 2.
    Changes-By: lintian-brush
    Fixes: lintian: mismatched-override
    See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/mismatched-override.html

  [ Bernd Zeimetz ]
  * [fa63406] Move libguestStore.so, libgdp.so to open-vm-tools
    (Closes: #1021611) (LP: #1992501)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:55:51 +0000

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

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

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package open-vm-tools - 2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.1

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open-vm-tools (2:12.1.5-3~ubuntu0.22.04.1) jammy; urgency=medium

  * Backport recent open-vm-tools release v12.1.5
    (LP: #1998558)
  * d/control: Add libabsl-dev as explicit build-dependency.
    - (Closes #1032305)

 -- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Mar 2023 23:57:03 +0000