open-vm-tools should recommend open-vm-toolbox
Bug #391224 reported by
Evan Broder
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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open-vm-tools (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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open-vm-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Evan Broder |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: open-vm-tools
open-vm-toolbox is currently necessary for the Nice Things one expects from VMWare Tools when interacting with a graphical VM (such as guest resolution changes on window resize). However, open-vm-tools currently only suggests open-vm-toolbox. Since aptitude doesn't show any information about suggestions, this relationship is never pointed out at installtime.
I think that open-vm-tools should recommend open-vm-toolbox instead of merely suggesting it. For people who only want the non-graphical components of open-vm-tools, the recommendation would still let them punt open-vm-toolbox.
Related branches
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Evan Broder (broder) |
Changed in open-vm-tools (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
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The + in the version number is intentional and necessary. Without it, version ordering of the kernel modules generated by module-assistant will break. Specifically, kernel modules built from -3ubuntu1 have a lower version number than modules built from -3.