Hi Maintainers, In doing further investigation, I suspect this hook is entirely vestigal and should be dropped from packaging.
Neither pcnet32.* nor vmxnet appear to be referenced anywhere else in debian/*, and I could not find an obvious way to install things that would exercise the conditional. In doing some git archaeology[1], I discovered that vmxnet used to be installed by a deprecated binary module that was finally dropped from the packaging with the changeset to remove the -dkms package[2]. So I think the file debian/local/vmxnet.hook should have been deleted with that, and thus can simply be dropped now. 1: https://code.launchpad.net/~bryce/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+git/open-vm-tools/+merge/468120 2: https://salsa.debian.org/vmware-packaging-team/pkg-open-vm-tools/-/commit/5bf93011c0b4c02cd7e6169e8bbba56b87ea14c4
