Activity log for bug #1220950

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2013-09-04 22:52:08 Ben Howard bug added bug
2013-09-04 22:52:23 Ben Howard bug added subscriber MIR approval team
2013-09-04 22:54:20 Ben Howard ubuntu: milestone ubuntu-13.10
2013-09-05 00:15:10 Scott Moser bug added subscriber Scott Moser
2013-09-05 00:15:27 Scott Moser affects ubuntu open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
2013-09-05 01:38:02 Nate Muench (Mink) branch linked lp:~n-muench/ubuntu/saucy/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools.april-update.part2
2013-09-09 14:20:17 Michael Terry open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): assignee Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand)
2013-09-09 16:49:53 Jamie Strandboge open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): assignee Jamie Strandboge (jdstrand) Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)
2013-10-21 20:42:57 Stéphane Graber open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): milestone ubuntu-13.10 saucy-updates
2013-10-23 06:28:27 Seth Arnold bug added subscriber Seth Arnold
2013-10-23 06:28:31 Seth Arnold open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): assignee Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)
2013-11-04 23:18:10 Michael Terry bug task added zerofree (Ubuntu)
2013-11-04 23:18:21 Michael Terry bug task added libdumbnet (Ubuntu)
2013-11-06 16:31:08 Ben Howard description [Availability] open-vm-tools is currently in universe and has been in Ubuntu since Lucid. It is currently in Debian Main. [Rationale]: open-vm-tools is the open source method of installing tools for VMware guests. VMware is a popular hypervisor for both desktop and server workloads. VMware is the defacto hyper-visor for some industries, and supporting them by adding open-vm-tools will enable Ubuntu easier. Further, VMware is promoting the use of open-vm-tools as the preferred way for hyper-visor interaction with Linux. With the 3.9 kernel, the open-vm-tools-dkms is no longer needed for the tools to run. Starting with Fedora 19 (released April 2013), open-vm-tools ships on CD and installs automatically on appropriate hardware. [Security]: There have been no CVE's in the last two years, with the latest being CVE-2011-1681 and CVE-2009-2692. [Quality assurance]: Debian Main: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/open-vm-tools Upstream Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/tracker/?source=navbar [UI standards]: N/A [Dependencies]: All dependencies are from main. [Background]: For the last several years, there has been the request to include open-vm-tools in the cloud-images. By having this promoted to main, it will allow us to ship with the default image; the main reason for not including this in the cloud image is due to the package provenance. [Availability] open-vm-tools is currently in universe and has been in Ubuntu since Lucid. It is currently in Debian Main. [Rationale]: open-vm-tools is the open source method of installing tools for VMware guests. VMware is a popular hypervisor for both desktop and server workloads. VMware is the defacto hyper-visor for some industries, and supporting them by adding open-vm-tools will enable Ubuntu easier. Further, VMware is promoting the use of open-vm-tools as the preferred way for hyper-visor interaction with Linux. With the 3.9 kernel, the open-vm-tools-dkms is no longer needed for the tools to run. Starting with Fedora 19 (released April 2013), open-vm-tools ships on CD and installs automatically on appropriate hardware. [Security]: There have been no CVE's in the last two years, with the latest being CVE-2011-1681 and CVE-2009-2692. [Quality assurance]: Debian Main: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/open-vm-tools Upstream Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/tracker/?source=navbar [UI standards]: N/A [Dependencies]: zerofree and libdumnet will need to be promoted as well. zerofree: e2fslibs and libc6, dependencies in main libdumnet: libc6, dependency in main [Background]: For the last several years, there has been the request to include open-vm-tools in the cloud-images. By having this promoted to main, it will allow us to ship with the default image; the main reason for not including this in the cloud image is due to the package provenance.
2013-11-13 21:30:45 Michael Terry zerofree (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2013-11-13 22:09:06 Michael Terry libdumbnet (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2013-11-27 15:19:45 Ben Howard zerofree (Ubuntu): status Incomplete New
2013-12-31 03:37:45 Michael Terry zerofree (Ubuntu): status New Incomplete
2014-01-03 18:43:24 Michael Terry zerofree (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Fix Committed
2014-01-04 23:10:26 Matthias Klose zerofree (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2014-01-16 09:59:39 James Page open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2014-01-16 09:59:41 James Page zerofree (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2014-01-16 09:59:42 James Page libdumbnet (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2014-01-16 09:59:53 James Page open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): milestone saucy-updates ubuntu-14.04
2014-01-21 21:28:13 Michael Terry open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): status New Fix Committed
2014-01-24 21:54:55 John Savanyo bug added subscriber Oliver Kurth
2014-01-24 21:55:09 John Savanyo bug added subscriber Joy Ghosh
2014-01-28 16:15:16 Michael Terry libdumbnet (Ubuntu): status Incomplete Fix Committed
2014-01-28 17:41:55 Matthias Klose libdumbnet (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2014-01-28 17:48:10 Matthias Klose open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2014-03-18 17:48:17 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.trusty