[Pkg-x2go-devel] nx-libs.git client-only version / X2Go client-side packages

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Reinhard,

On Fr 06 Jan 2012 09:46:30 CET Reinhard Tartler wrote:

> On Do, Jan 05, 2012 at 14:41:27 (CET), Mike Gabriel wrote:
>
>> Hi Reinhard,
>>
>> On Do 05 Jan 2012 10:17:15 CET Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>
>>> On Mi, Jan 04, 2012 at 23:06:32 (CET), Mike Gabriel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all (esp. Reinhard),
>>>>
>>>> On So 01 Jan 2012 20:30:30 CET Mike Gabriel wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Asking all who are interested to take a look at these packages:
>>>>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/nx-libs
>>>>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/x2goclient
>>>>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/python-x2go
>>>>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/pyhoca-cli
>>>>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/pyhoca-gui
>>>>
>>>> has anyone had some time to take a closer look at the above packages?
>>>
>>> I prefer to review git branches.
>>
>> NX Libs:
>> --------
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/x2go/nx-libs.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/client-only
>
> Can you please arrange that the branch actually builds with the standard
> git-buildpackage tool? Currently, git-buildpackage compains about files
> that get removed in debian/rules' clean target, and that creating the
> orig.tar.gz with pristine-tar fails.

I am working on that...

> debian/rules still contains commented-out cruft.

Ok...

> I've tried to build the dsc. Unfortunately, it fails to build against
> libpng-dev from debian/experimental:

Yepp... we do not seem to be the only ones... Have you maybe already  
stumbled over a way to fix this in other projects? I will take some  
time to look at that this week.

> Get:22 http://ftp2.de.debian.org/debian/ experimental/main  
> libpng-dev amd64 1.5.6-1 [303 kB]
>
> [...]
>
> Probably not a blocker right now, but will definitely become RC.

Yeah, we should try to patch that away...

>  I think debian/copyright still needs major work. Currently, it lists
> only these persons as copyright holders:
>
>    Copyright (c) 1995,1996 Brian Pane
>    Copyright (c) 1996,1997 Zachary Vonler and Brian Pane
>    Copyright (c) 1999 Kevin Vigor and Brian Pane
>    Copyright (c) 2000,2001 Gian Filippo Pinzari and Brian Pane
>
> The files MD5.[ch] are copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002 Aladdin Enterprises.
>
> I cannot imagine that this is complete. nomachine surely doesn't own the
> copyright for all of nx-libs, I suspect their copyright covers their
> modifications to the Xorg sources only.  However according to the Debian
> Policy Manual §2.3, "every package must be accompanied by a verbatim
> copy of its copyright information and distribution license".
>
> However, I don't think I'll have the time and energy to write a proper
> copyright file for nx-libs. I'd therefore recommend asking on
> debian-legal, debian-devel and maybe ftp-master (but they are hugely
> overworked themselves) for assistance with finding a compromise, how to
> feasibly write a proper debian/copyright file that fulfills Debian's
> requirements. I'm unsure on this myself.

The debian/copyright file has been taken from the libxcomp3 package  
that currently is in Debian squeeze. As the client-only nx-libs.git  
only contains nxcomp and nxproxy I guess we are fine with that.  
However, with the goal of finally including all  
nx-X11+nxcomp*+nxagent+nxauth sources in nx-libs.git later, we  
definitely have to address this topic on your recommended channels.  
But maybe after we have uploaded nx-libs.git (client-only branch) plus  
x2goclient and pyhoca to Debian unstable(?).

Thanks!!!
Mike



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