[Bug 1220950] Re: [MIR] open-vm-tools

[Ben Howard]

Added dependency information for zerofree and libdumbnet.

** Description changed:

  [Availability] open-vm-tools is currently in universe and has been in
  Ubuntu since Lucid.  It is currently in Debian Main.
  
  [Rationale]: open-vm-tools is the open source method of installing tools
  for VMware guests. VMware is a popular hypervisor for both desktop and
  server workloads. VMware is the defacto hyper-visor for some industries,
  and supporting them by adding open-vm-tools will enable Ubuntu easier.
  
  Further, VMware is promoting the use of open-vm-tools as the preferred
  way for hyper-visor interaction with Linux. With the 3.9 kernel, the
  open-vm-tools-dkms is no longer needed for the tools to run.
  
  Starting with Fedora 19 (released April 2013), open-vm-tools ships on CD
  and installs automatically on appropriate hardware.
  
  [Security]: There have been no CVE's in the last two years, with the
  latest being CVE-2011-1681 and CVE-2009-2692.
  
- [Quality assurance]:  
+ [Quality assurance]:
  Debian Main: https://launchpad.net/debian/+source/open-vm-tools
  Upstream Bug Tracker: http://sourceforge.net/p/open-vm-tools/tracker/?source=navbar
  
  [UI standards]:  N/A
  
- [Dependencies]: All dependencies are from main.
+ [Dependencies]: zerofree and libdumnet will need to be promoted as well.
+ zerofree:  e2fslibs and libc6, dependencies in main
+ libdumnet: libc6, dependency in main
  
  [Background]: For the last several years, there has been the request to
  include open-vm-tools in the cloud-images. By having this promoted to
  main, it will allow us to ship with the default image; the main reason
  for not including this in the cloud image is due to the package
  provenance.

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  [MIR] open-vm-tools

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