[Pkg-nx-group] freenx debian packaging

[Israel Miranda]

I agree with you Alexander, you're damn right.
Supporting a package wich provides remote access with security packages
becomes a nigthmare,
if there is duplicated code.
Right now I use the proprietary nomachine's package, but I'd like to use a
GPL version.

Alexander, I didn't know that the GPL version of freenx had so many
"implementation problems".
But it's still a great technology and it's worthy using ( a stable and
without duplicated code version ).

So, what would be the solution?
Creating a fork project?
Because, by what I've learned in this discussion, the actual freenx version
will be very dificult to support in the future, and maybe the project could
even be dropped in the future or totally rewritten.

I think that if you guys feel like we can handle this chalenge, the first
step would be creating a todo list and study the viability of a fork
project.

What do you guys think?


2008/1/9, Emilio Scalise <emisca at rocketmail.com>:
>
> So the only solution is to switch to xrdp + vnc4server (that on lan is
> good
> enough for my needs), or nomachine proprietary packages if I really want
> to
> use nx (on low bandwidth links, nx is unbeatable).
> This is sad, but there are no other alternatives.....
>
> I hope that sometime the nx protocol will be implemented as an clean xorg
> extension or an alternative with similar performance will be developed.
>
> Il Wednesday 09 January 2008 10:22:07 Alexander Wirt ha scritto:
> > Emilio Scalise schrieb am Tuesday, den 08. January 2008:
> > > There was a google summer of code about the integration of nx and
> xorg.
> > > Nobody did it :-(
> > >
> > > I understand all the concerns about creating a "clean" package. But
> what
> > > about
> >
> > Its not about clean, its about supporting and code duplication.
> >
> > > a semi-ufficial package (maybe for experimental) until things will
> > > change?
> >
> > This package will never be accepted by the ftp-master. He told me that
> > personally. So - no - there is no chance.
> >
> > > As all of you already said on the pkg-nx-group mailing list, Suse and
> > > redhat do this, and event support it with security patches.
> > >
> > > So why we can't do it? I don't want to start a religious flame.
> >
> > You can do if you want. I'm personally not interested if the package
> won't
> > go into main. And I don't want to do security support for such a
> nightmare
> > on my own.
> >
> > > Like we do with ati and nvidia closed drivers we could write on the
> > > description why freenx and nx is bad. Then the user will choose to use
> it
> > > or not.
> >
> > Its a nightmare to support. The debian security team will not.
> >
> > Alex
>
>
>
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-- 
Meus cumprimentos,

Israel Vinícius Nogueira Miranda
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