Comment 35 for bug 1741390

I now have several leads which raise my mood on this.
I already had one party testing the locally which made us spot an issue with the latest version in regard to xenials systemd (bug 1750780). But that is fixed already in the proposed ppa.

We now also got vmware itself taking a look at the proposed changes in the ppa which should update here in a bit.

Since this is the first time this is formally introduced it might take a while, but I think if all that works together we can work out a formal SRU exception that will allow to do that regularly.

Next Steps:
1. smoke test ack on the ppa 3152 by VMware (result: comment on this bug)
--- the following are follow on actions in my mind, not yet discussed/agreed with the others ---
2. create SRU exception (I'll do that) agreed by VMware on how/who verifies them (result: SRU exception wiki page)
3. ack by the SRU Team on the exception (result: ack by SRU team)
4. upload verified open-vm-tools versions under above SRU exception regularly (result: up to date open-vm-tools in Ubuntu)