Comment 3 for bug 1803939

Hi Pengpeng,
the latest version in Ubuntu actually has this dependency still.

debian/open-vm-tools.service:6:Before=cloud-init-local.service

That is version 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu4 in Disco and is the same for all 10.3 backports for now.

We will port and backport the 10.3.5 version later this development cycle, but sneak peeking at the just appeared 2:10.3.5-1 in Debian shows the same is true there as well.
No changes other than merging with recent upstream.

I assume you got your open-vm-tools from another source?
If so it would be interesting which one that is?
And if you happen to know where, please file the same bug there and let us know the reference to the bug here.

To help you finding where things come from you can run "dpkg -S" and "apt-cache policy".
For example in most recent ubuntu that looks like this:

root@d:~# dpkg -S /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service
open-vm-tools: /lib/systemd/system/open-vm-tools.service
root@d:~# apt-cache policy open-vm-tools
open-vm-tools:
  Installed: 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 2:10.3.0-0ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

For Ubuntu as-is this report is invalid as we still have the dependency that you are missing.