[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] TigerVNC debian upload

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

ok -- I think we are ready to approach Debian proper... I expect it to
take awhile anyways to pass through the NEW queue.

I will upload in a second.

We should also think about fixing up the dichotomy between man
xtigervncviewer interface (which assumes presence of a convenience
wrapper with e.g. -via options) and the actual xtigervncviewer.

I was bluntly sure that /usr/bin/xtightvncviewer is a bash script
wrapping the actual binary and providing all those additional options,
but apparently I was wrong...  

may be Ola could help out here?

Cheers,

On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:


> 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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