[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] TigerVNC debian upload

[Ola Lundqvist]

Hi Yaroslav

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:39:36AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> 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.

This is really great news!

> 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...  

Yes you were wrong. It is a binary and have always been. I think
-via was patched in vnc3 origianlly then tightvnc and finally vnc4.
I may remember wrong however.

// Ola

> 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!
> -- 
> Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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