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

[Brian Hinz]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
> >    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?
>

Hopefully that portion of my deb package can be ported over.  Yes, the Java
viewer works just fine with OpenJDK.  For the packages that I create for
TigerVNC, I sign the applet with a legitimate code signing cert, however I
have yet to see how this can be implemented in any open-source project.  As
a fall-back, the build system will use a self-signed certificate but with
the new Java restrictions on RIAs, it's really advantageous to use a legit
certificate, so if you have any ideas how to accomplish this I'm all ears.

>    (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 ;-)


That's more or less what's happening in Fedora, although I believe that
most (if not all) of the patches have been merged into Fedora's Fltk.

-brian
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