[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#730552: provide xserver-xorg-source package for building 3rd party software (e.g. VNC) reusing XOrg codebase

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 1:7.7+3
Severity: wishlist


https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-tigervnc team works on packaging
TigerVNC for Debian (ITP - #650394).  Unfortunately (or for some might be
-- fortunately) our initial upload to Debian proper was rejected (in 18 Apr
2013) with the main concern being shipping convenience copies of Xorg to build
TigerVNC.  And suggestion was made to seek collaboration with Debian X Strike
Force so that Debian could provide a 'proper' xserver-xorg-source package
providing sources of the XOrg so TigerVNC could be built against them (which
should simplify/secure its maintenance in the long term).

Since better later than never, I have decided to file this wishlist to discuss
such a possibility.  do you see any particular concerns against?  would you
prefer a patch or work it our yourself?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii  libc6                                         2.17-93
ii  x11-xkb-utils                                 7.7~1
ii  xkb-data                                      2.5.1-3
pn  xserver-xorg-core                             <none>
ii  xserver-xorg-input-evdev [xorg-driver-input]  1:2.7.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-input-void [xorg-driver-input]   1:1.4.0-1+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-apm [xorg-driver-video]    1:1.2.3-3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-dummy [xorg-driver-video]  1:0.3.5-2+b1
ii  xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [xorg-driver-video]  1:0.4.2-4+b3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-intel [xorg-driver-video]  2:2.19.0-6
ii  xserver-xorg-video-vesa [xorg-driver-video]   1:2.3.1-1+b1

Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri  9.2.2-1

xserver-xorg suggests no packages.

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