[Pkg-x2go-devel] Getting things started with x2goclient

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:22:57PM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>Hi Reinhart,
>
>On Di 01 Feb 2011 10:59:10 CET Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>Still, I think this work should better be done upstream and not as 
>>part of Debian Packaging, which AFAIUI is the purpose of pkg-x2go 
>>team.
>
>I know from Heinz that there is a thought that the X2go project becomes 
>the upstream location for these packages as NoMachine NX3 is actually 
>out of the NoMachine support...
>
>As code.x2go.git and the Uni-Erlangen git will be an X2go upstream 
>location, we might choose to be free in the setup design.
>
>So the main question here is: is there an NX upstream that is still 
>,,alive''? If not, what steps are needed to transfer upstream to 
>X2go-git.

Why do you phrase that question here?

I wholeheartedly agree with Reinhard that it is more appropriately 
handled *upstream*.

 From a Debian packaging perspektive, it makes most sense to use nx 
sources until perhaps maybe some day in the (possibly near!) future a 
new upstream or a fork more interesting for Debian to track emerges.


>>>I would rather like to see one .git folder per source package (in 
>>>Debian or other distro).
>>
>>This is exactly what I'm proposing.
>
>So we should thing about a scheme that shows which binaries are 
>included in which source package... I could do this some time next 
>weekend. But if you have a proposal I am happy to comment on that.

No, we (as in "us Debian package maintainers") should *not* think, just 
follow: Upstream provide us source, and we package according to that 
source.

We might - if upstream is very annoying and release their code in a 
grouping unsuitable to us, repackage for our redistribution.  And if we 
do so, it makes very good sense to try convince upstream to change their 
release style to minimize our work.


Therefore: I strongly recommend to discuss both forking/takeover of nx 
code and grouping of sources upstream _at_ _the_ _x2go_ _devel_ _list_!


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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