[Pkg-x2go-devel] [X2go-dev] Starting to get x2go into Ubuntu Oneiric

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On 11-05-20 at 02:30pm, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Jonas, hi all,
> 
> On Do 19 Mai 2011 22:27:30 CEST Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> >If newer alternative libraries are not appropriate to apply as 
> >patches to the existing ones in Debian, then I find it most sensible 
> >to ship them with alternate names in Debian (rather than replacing 
> >the existing ones).
> 
> Questions:
> 
>  o is NoMachine's NXv3 still maintained by NoMachine?
>  o If not: does Debian accept unmaintained code?
>  o if not: does it need another group of people responsible for upstream?
>  o if yes: is the X2go project an acceptable upstream for Debian (and
>    subsequently Ubuntu etc.)

Above questions are a separate issue: How do Debian deal with the API 
currently offered via packaging of NoMachine libraries.

Maybe the former project is dead, maybe it is not but have become 
non-free - but since intent of X2Go (as you mentioned yourself) is not 
to preserve that API _and_ X2Go do not represent the former upstream 
author of that API, I find it pretty irrelevant to discuss that issue 
here.


>  o if yes: do I understand it correctly that nxproxy & nxcomp* should
>    better be renamed? Probably already in X2go upstream. To make it 
>    really clear that it is not a continuation but a fork

Yes, I find that most sensible.  Both to play nice amongst upstreams (it 
is a clear fork, cannot be seen as a hijack), and to avoid confusion 
amongst downstream - those relying on an API and stumbling across some 
newer code with same name and purpose and newer number.


 - Jonas

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