[pkg-x2go-devel] Bug#784565: Bug#784565: Bug#784565: nx-libs-lite: parts are derived from non-free code

[Kevin Vigor]

On 05/16/15 03:19, Mike Gabriel wrote:
  As I have not heard back neither from Brian Pane, Zachary Vonler nor Gian Filippo Pinzari (we had Ascension Day and maybe a prolonged weekend that people used for going on VAC), I will try looking at the DXPC changes between 3.7.0 and 3.8.1. Obviously, NoMachine forked NXCOMP from DXPC some time between DXPC 3.7.0 and DXPC 3.8.0.
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> Questions to Kevin:
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>    o Is there any SVN upstream repo still online
>      (I saw it in one of the tarballs, that SVN was
>      used for 3.9.0).

I'm afraid not. There was never an online repo available, and if I used one personally it is lost to the mists of time.

>    o Do you have any tarballs documenting the
>      changes between 3.7.0 and 3.8.0? Do you also
>      have the 3.8.1 tarball?

I have the source tarballs to each of those (including the 3.8.1 version). The 3.8.0 release includes a README-3.8.0 file which documents the changes between 3.7.0 and 3.8.0 reasonably well.

As will be (unfortunately) obvious from examining the deltas between 3.7.0 (the last release by Brian and/or Zachary) and 3.8.0 (the first release by me), I inherited a significant majority of the code.

>    o Did the 3.8.0 version of DXPC break proto
>      compatibility (i.e., you could not use client
>      3.7.0 and server 3.8.0 and vice versa with
>      each other)?

Yes, minor version number bumps were used to indicate compatibility. 3.8.x was incompatible with 3.7.x (and also with 3.9.x).