[Pkg-x2go-devel] ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

[Mike Gabriel]

Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2012-01-06
Severity: wishlist

* Package name : nx-libs
   Version : 3.5.0.3
   Upstream Author : Mike Gabriel, Oleksandr Shneyder, Reinhard Tartler
* URL : wiki.x2go.org
* License : GPLv2
   Description : NX protocol libraries and binaries

NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of  
the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications  
over a network, especially a slow one.

The X2Go upstream team has started to provide ,,NX (redistributed)''  
-- a redistribution of NX code originally provided by NoMachine. The  
X2Go upstream
team has reviewed many patches from different sources and ships them  
with ,,NX (redistributed)''.

X2Go upstream offers two tarball variants of ,,NX (redistributed)'':
   - LITE: nx-libs_<version>-lite.tar.gz (NX client-only support)
   - FULL: nxlibs_<version>-full.tar.gz (full NX client and server support)

The X2Go upstream team has also made an effort on applying X2Go  
specific patches that allow to turn an unbranded NX agent (aka  
nxagent, stripped off !M logo from session startup splash, as done by  
the FreeNX team on Launchpad) into an X2Go branded (splash screen)  
agent (aka x2goagent). The name of the binary decides on the flavour  
(FreeNX or X2Go) the agent runs as.

Due to the X2Go-specific patches, the latest ,,NX (redistributed)''  
tarball provided by X2Go upstream works with FreeNX and X2Go.

The X2Go upstream team has decided to actively provide source code  
maintenance of the original NX coded downloaded from NoMachine as a  
redistributor. This aims at providing higher downstream-responsive  
patch cycles compared to the past (with NoMachine as NX upstream).  
Patches applied to ,,NX (redistributed)'' also get reported to  
NoMachine (by the X2Go upstream team). Patches that find their way  
into original NoMachine release will be removed from the ,,NX  
(redist.)'' patch stack, once a new NoMachine tarball release has been  
tested and incorporated into ,,NX (redist)''.

The first package upload of nx-libs to Debian unstable is planned to  
only provide nx-libs_<version>-lite.tar.gz (the LITE variante of NX  
redist.) and update NX client support in Debian.

This will be required for closing the following ITPs:

   x2goclient (#655602)
   python-x2go (#655608)
   pyhoca-gui (#655603)
   pyhoca-cli (#655607)

The upload of nx-libs will replace to existing source packages and  
close open bugs:

   - nxcomp (3.2.0-7-1.1), closing #627803
   - nxproxy (3.2.0-1-1), closing #637443

The maintenance of those packages will from then on be provided by the  
X2Go Packaging Team on Alioth  
(pkg-x2go-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org). Thanks to Mathew Johnson who  
agreed on handing the packages over to our team and also thanks for  
providing former versions of those packages during the last years!!!

For some future upload the X2Go Packaging Team plans to switch over to  
providing the full ,,NX (redistributed)'' code base, including

   - nxcomp
   - nxcompext
   - nxcompshad
   - nx-X11
   - nxagent
   - x2goagent
   - nxauth
   - nx-X11

This will close the ITP for X2Go Server:

   - x2go (#465821)

The packaing of the full NX (redist) code base would also allow for  
FreeNX to finally be packaged for Debian (if developers of FreeNX have  
an interest on that).

Contacts:
   X2Go Packagin Team: pkg-x2go-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
   X2Go upstream developers: x2go-dev at lists.berlios.de
   FreeNX developers: freenx-team at lists.launchpad.net

   NX (redist) aka nx-libgs.git on: http://git.x2go.org
   http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=summary
   - full code base -> master branch
   - lite/client-only code base -> client-only branch




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