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

[Paul van der Vlis]

Roberto C. Sánchez schreef:
> 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.

Is the duplicated code changed?

Maybe there is a good reason to duplicate the code. E.g. the used Xorg
version needs good testing with NX. What if a new Xorg come, and NX does
not work with it?

Fedora and Suse have FreeNX packages. How do they do it?

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.


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