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

[Eric DECORNOD]

Le vendredi 6 juillet 2007 02:47, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit :
> 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

<troll>
  Anyone's ready to fork NX gpl'ed components less tied with random unchecked 
sources ?
</troll>

I didn't get the point in forking openSSH, anyone can write an ssh subsystem 
without touching the core source files.

IMHO many parts of NX could be untied.
(DXPC wasn't a huge hack against XFree source code).

I personally think that having actual NX code in debian is yet utopia without 
a huge fork¹ (at least of nxproxy and nxagent).

¹: may be an interresting challenge for talented developers ;-)

Regards,
-- 
Eric DÉCORNOD
Ingénieur d'Études
SCICS - Faculté des Sciences
Université Henri Poincaré
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