[Pkg-nx-group] New situation with NX 3.0 and debian

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 06:06:43PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> 
> The real serious issue are the NX libraries, which (still with NX 3.0) duplicate a lot of code from other upstream projects:
> - the whole X source tree (X.org 6.6 this time, instead of a radom XFree86 4.3 development snapshot in the past)
> - esound 0.2.36, in comparison to an ancient pre- woody version until now
> - samba 3.0
> - GKrellM 2.2.10
> - OpenSSH 4.4p1
> TightVNC and rdesktop forks have fortunately been dropped with NX 3.0.
> 
I think that the code duplication is probably one of the biggest hurdles
to overcome for inclusion in Debian.  The security team will *never* go
for having forks of such critical items as openssh, X and samba embedded
into another package.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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