[Pkg-ltsp-devel] current upload and bug status

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:17:56AM +0000, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On 8/9/06, Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at freegeek.org> wrote:

> >   3) #356986: ltsp-server: ltsp should not be dependent on sound
> >
> >i would like to move the ltsp-server dependency on "esound-clients" to a
> >recommends, and add it as a dependency on ltsp-server-standalone. it's
> >not truely necessary to have sound on the clients, even if it may be the
> >default.
> 
> I agree that sound support should be off by default, but i dunno
> what's the best way to let it be easy to use.

i think it should be on by default, but be *possible* to not install
sound related software. hence "recommends". the down side is that if
installed with apt-get or aptitude --without-recommends (tasksel
behaviour), it won't get enabled unless they install the
ltsp-server-standalone..

we could set up some ltsp-build-client hooks that check if the
server-side sound package(s) are installed, and configure the chroot
accordingly.

> >   4) #360406: ltsp-server: what's skolelinux?
> >
> >in the long-term, we should probably use a debconf question
> >(preseedable) to set up the preferred alternative. at the moment, it's
> >hard-coded for debian-edu/skolelinux. the debian theme looks stupid, but
> >maybe would be better to make that default, and try to find some artist
> >to write a better debian theme?
 
> I don't think it's a blocker for a new upload too, but we could work
> on the infrastructure to change the artwork in the near future for
> etch. I'll be organizing a meeting about desktop-base usage,
> pkg-gnome, pkg-kde and pkg-xfce artwork. It would be good put pkg-ltsp
> in the mix too.

i made a little improvement to the debian theme, and set it as the
alternative with highest priority. help with an even more improved theme
would still be much appreciated :)
 
> >   5) #360409: ltsp-server: there's no sample dhcp conf in the doc
> >
> >would anyone be opposed to including the dhcpd.conf file in
> >/usr/share/doc/ltsp-server/examples ? this might be helpful to some
> >users, even if we include the same file in ltsp-server-standalone.
> 
> If the example is good enough for the users, why not? :)

it's duplicated information in two packages, but it's currently small
and i included it in the examples section of ltsp-server.

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  vagrant