[Pkg-tigervnc-devel] Request to Join Project TigerVNC package for Debian from Ola Lundqvist (opal)

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Ola Lundqvist wrote:

>      Thanks for joining in!!! Also yesterday, I thought... Gosh, we have to
>      get TigerVNC ready for Debian stretch.

>    Haha! I have been thinking that since wheezy or so ;-)

Yeay -- welcome to the team the VNC master! ;)

Let me say -- "we have tried" (for wheezy or jessie, can't recall).  The
primary problem was inclusion of xorg sources etc.  Since they we moved
away from that and there is now xorg-server-source so we should all be
kosher and indeed aim to reupload.  For that we need to finish updating
it for 1.5.0 tigervnc or even jump over to recently released
1.6.0; and then re-review all the copyright etc

But otherwise we indeed should be close to be ready ;)


>      However, what I also thought yesterday for nx-X11 and TigerVNC alike:
>      maybe we should drop the pkg-tigervnc-devel list and knock on the doors
>      of the Debian X Strike Force and work under their umbrella. Thus, moving
>      our interests more into the X Strike Force's team context.

>    It is a possibility. However isn't it a risk that our discussions would be
>    overwhelmed by the X activities? My guess is that the X.org activities are
>    much more than this little package?
>    What I have been thinking for many many years is to actually ask X.org to
>    include the patches that we apply... That way we do not even have to
>    maintain it at all :-)
>    But maybe that is more for upstream to do. And of course there may be
>    licensing issues that prevents that.

yeah -- if we could join to offload tigervnc package upon them, it would
be ok with me.  But joining rightfully to participate in all X
activities, myself I would have no bandwidth and would need to drop off.
So, IMHO, one step at a time -- finalize packaging, see patches being
upstreamed, and then may be seek some merge of efforts.

Cheers,
-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
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