[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] TigerVNC debian upload

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Joachim Falk wrote:
> >> COOL -- I will test it too and if find nothing preventing upload,
> >> will do so.
> > ah -- it seems that it still might need more TLC ...
> > 1. I have added libfltk1.3 to build-depends so it tries to build
> > against system-wide (not internal copy)
> Don't do that, as TigerVNC needs a special copy of fltk. It has extra
> patches on top of the lib, which, last I checked, are not included in
> the debian provided libfltk1.3.

ah -- thanks! now that I have compared against Debian's version -- it is
indeed quite different (more recent) from Debian-shipped one.  I guess
ideal course of action would be to figure out tigervnc-specific patches,
and consult with tigervnc/fltk developers either they could be accepted
upstream, so that next version of fltk in Debian could be compatible
with tigervnc as is.  Anyone interested to initiate such a dialog?

I will revert my commit and add note to debian/README.source on that. 

> > 3. get-orig-source fails on me :-/ and I guess I am not that much
> > of a guru in pristine-tar since it barely makes sense for me in
> > this case... any hints?
> Hmm, the pristine-tar situation for xorg is a bit complex. For the
> newer xservers used in wheezy, the xorg debian strike force no longer
> ...
> modifications in the xorg-server-helper copy, because they both
> referenced the .git/modules/xorg-server directory for git object file
> storage. Can you try to checkout this stuff from scratch?

"from scratch" worked -- I will test the build now -- thanks!

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