Comment 22 for bug 277556

You are remarkable - the addition of Jaunty packages to the PPA makes my life a whole lot easier. I just installed the new packages on one of the Jaunty servers I use, and it worked great. vmtoolsd started right up, and seems to work without a hassle.

Looking through the package changelog, these appear to be the Ubuntu developer contacts you may have the best luck with:
Devid Antonio Filoni <email address hidden>
Dan Sheridan <email address hidden>

The ideal approach would be to get your patches in Debian. The debian maintainer for open-vm-tools is: Daniel Baumann <email address hidden>

There is a bug in debian requesting DKMS support at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516251

Also, the #ubuntu-dev channel on freenode may be able to help you find a sponsor.