Bug#449144: tsclient: Please add RDPv5 disk mapping support (patch available)

Kilian Krause kilian at debian.org
Wed Nov 7 22:34:28 UTC 2007


Clement,

On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:56:52PM +0100, Clement 'nodens' Hermann wrote:
> Kilian Krause a écrit :
> >ok, let's start with the obvious. The Debian packaging of tsclient is
> >supposed to be the debian/ dir only. I.e. if you have a new upstream
> >source, there is no need to patch the full source to the new version and
> >mail that as diff. You just include the new tarball version for that
> >release in debian/changelog and make the neccessary adjustments in debian/.
> >Most commonly it's a good idea to add a get-orig-source target for this
> >- or to plain use it if it's there already. ;)
> >  
> Duh. I didn't saw this target. I told you I wasn't familiar with CDBS ;)

It's not so much CDBS, it's more a pkg-gnome and pkg-voip standard. ;)
(Actually it's a Buildserver.NET prerequisite)


> For the "all in one" patch, I actually don't know why I did that. I 
> should have known better. Of course a patch against the debian dir is 
> the way to go.
> >Second you included automake1.9 and autoconf in the Build-Deps. That
> >generally is a *very good* indication for things that have gone utterly
> >wrong. For a proper packaging you should not regenerate the configure
> >during the build to keep a certain amount of reproducability. That's the
> >reason there was a patch for that update to make the outcome rather
> >predictable. Maintainer mode is for developers, not for packagers. ;)
> >  
> I misread guidlines in /usr/share/doc/autotools-dev. Now that you point 
> it to me, I can see that I should have paid more attention to the 
> introduction ;)

Yes. ;)


> >Moreover if you drop patches, it's always nice to know why this is no
> >longer needed (added included upstream for that reason).
> >  
> Ok.
> >Thirdly, the SVN was a bit further, so your patch didn't really apply
> >cleanly. I have manually fixed that part. 
> >
> >The result with some slight modifications to get the package mostly
> >lintian clean I have put in SVN[1].
> >
> >Can you verify this is the intended result so I can go and upload it?
> >Thanks!
> >
> >  
> It is OK to me, except that I just saw a little UI problem in the patch. 
> The remote drive mapping should be disabled in the UI when the selected 
> protocol is not RDP. Attached is a svn diff that correct it.

Applied and released to unstable. Thanks for your help!


> My friend should upgrade the sourceforge version shortly (it seems it is 
> not possible to attach a new file if you are not the original submitter).

Great.

Maybe you can also have a look at fixing these remaining lintian warnings
with that new release:
W: tsclient: manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry usr/share/man/man1/tsclient.1.gz
W: tsclient: desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key /usr/share/applications/tsclient.desktop:69 Actions

Thanks again!

-- 
Best regards,
Kilian
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