Comment 10 for bug 1741390

The maintainer scripts have not a lot (actually none) version dependent special cases that sometimes wreaking havok for such backports.

OTOH unfortunately no integrated dep8 tests.
And as I mentioned at least I don't have a matrix of vmware hosts 10-14 around or any such which I'd like to see at least somewhat tested - and the SRU Team as well I'd guess.
I tried manually the current version, installing VMware-Workstation-Full-14.1.0-7370693.x86_64.bundle
Note: to get rid of it afterwards: sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-player
And Installed Xenial iso http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.3-server-amd64.iso
But I couldn't see total breakage without the new version just by installing and basic usage.

I have set up a ppa to test new versions that would be made available as SRU to be tested, see [1] for the packages.

@Evade:
- please help testing those packages as much as you can
- I know you referenced 10.2, but since 10.1.15 is the latest we have I won't go ahead of that.
- if you would have a few examples what fails on the old but would work on the new version with
  steps to reproduce (with only free vmware versions) - that would be helping the case a lot.

P.S: currently the Ubuntu build farm is disabled for maintenance, so you might need to wait a few days until the ppa is ready - that can be seen on the web view of the ppa on [2] where the packages need little "green checkmarks".

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3099
[2]: https://launchpad.net/~ci-train-ppa-service/+archive/ubuntu/3099/+packages