> Whats needed here is something that applies the appropriate > workaround for the debhelper version which is used to build the > package. I hope that at least in Debian sid there is no workaround > necessary anymore.
I made a comparison of the current state. Debhelper is 11ish on both most recent releases. Debian (sid): 11.1.2 Ubuntu (Bionic): 11ubuntu1 open-vm-tools is an equal version: 2:10.1.15-1 (build1 for Ubuntu, but never mind). Now I ran four cases 1. current Debian sid 2. Ubuntu Bionic as in the Archive atm 3. Ubuntu Bionic rebulding open-vm-tools as-is (just to be sure) 4. Ubuntu Bionic dropping the workarounds #1,2,3 fail (again :-/) with the issue as we had it in the past: Failed to preset unit: Unit file run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount does not exist. /usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper: error: systemctl preset failed on run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount: No such file or directory Failed to get unit file state for run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount: No such file or directory run-vmblock\\x2dfuse.mount is a disabled or a static unit, not starting it. #4 works great Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount → /lib/systemd/system/run-vmblock\x2dfuse.mount. So it seems with the newer debhelper we actually need to fix the issue again, by removing all workarounds we added before. I'll propose that for you on GH as I now rebuilt it for my test. See [1] You can consider uploading that as-is to 10.1.15-2 as a fix or to wrap it up in 10.2 as you get to it. > Could you figure out what works in the the current ubuntu and > maybe for all ubuntu backports, in case you are doing them? No thoughts about backports (yet) so lets keep complexity down at least for now. Eventually it would be the effort of the backport to select which workaround applies to "the local" debhelper version. > The current workarounds are here: Yeah I remember adding some of these with you. > I'll try to find some time soonish, but I'll happily take pull requests. I'm currently traveling and after that blocked for about two weeks at least, so surely no full PR soon for 10.2. Lets see who finds free cycles earlier. [1]: https://github.com/bzed/pkg-open-vm-tools/pull/12
