[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Bug#650394: updated packages available

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2014, Brian Hinz wrote:

>    On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko
>    <[1]debian at onerussian.com> wrote:

>      - I see that there is some packaging available in upstream sources now,
>        done by Brian (CCed).  Brian -- would you be interested to join our
>        tigervnc Debian packaging team to not duplicate efforts and avoid
>        proliferation of tigervnc debian package names?
>        See [2]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-tigervnc/
>        all packaging is under Git and I am looking at changes from Matthias
>        atm.

>    Hi Yaroslav,
>    Thanks for reaching out.

Hi Brian,  thanks for getting back!

>  Yes, I would like be involved in the debian
>    packaging effort.  However, in the interest of full disclosure I should
>    admit that (1) as you've probably already guessed from my packages, I'm a
>    novice at building debian packages, and (2) my bandwidth is all but
>    crippled at the moment (though I'll assist in whatever way I can).

That is perfectly fine -- even minor feedback from you on our
approach/problems, have you spotted some, could be very valuable!

>    I have some questions about your package:
>    (1) Where is the java viewer?  Being as it's my primary contribution to
>    the project, I'd kinda like to see it included ;)

I guess we have not packaged that one yet :-/  yet another TODO ;)  Is
Java viewer functioning fine with OpenJDK implementation?

>    (2) Have all of Pierre's Fltk patches been incorporated into the native
>    debian Fltk package?  

hm, personally -- don't know.  looking at the packaging 1.3.2-6 we have
doesn't seems to carry this one, http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2599,
which was not even accepted upstream... so we might indeed need to
proceed with a somewhat impaired functionality for now (if that is not
critical fixes)

> If not, the viewer will lack full functionality.  (I
>    realize that statically linking the fltk libs into our binary is
>    problematic from a distro point of view).

my primary goal would be to get tigervnc accepted to Debian proper, i.e.
for us to address original "concerns".  And then we could beef it up ;-)

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