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

[Stéphane Graber]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 15:00 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> On 11-05-20 at 02:44pm, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > Hi Stéphane,
> > 
> > On Do 19 Mai 2011 20:25:22 CEST Stéphane Graber wrote:
> > >In an ideal world (to me), x2go would be maintaining a list of 
> > >recommended patches on top of NoMachine's source code, that I could 
> > >easily pull and integrate in the Debian package (as debian/patches/ 
> > >files).
> > 
> > Jonas once warned me that maintaining to many patches for a project 
> > lets the DD become an upstream fork maintainer... (I hope I got that 
> > right...) ;-). There should be communication possible with whatever 
> > upstream there is, shouldn't it?
> 
> Yes, patches can become a fork - e.g. if they break upstream API.
> 
> But keeping patchset small is no excuse for switching upstream.  Exact 
> same (and more) concerns apply there.
> 
> There are many roads to hell.  Tread carefully.
> 
> 
>  - Jonas

Hi all!

For the two packages I'm currently interested in, nxagent and nxcomp,
I'm currently doing the following:

 - Take latest upstream release from NoMachine (released a week and a
half ago)
 - Take current packaging from Debian
 - Merge packaging changes from x2go's git
 - Review all the commits in x2go's git and for these that touch the
code, generate debian/patches/ standard patches with a comment on what
they're doing and citing the author.
 - Review any outstanding patches that'd be in Debian/Ubuntu and not in
x2go's git (so far, none)
 - Add a few packaging fixes (to be merged back into x2go's once tested)

I have something that should be close to final for nxagent:
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/72045904/nxproxy_3.5.0-1-1ubuntu1%
2Bbuild3_source.changes

And I'll work on nxcomp today, then will rebuild nxagent with the new
nxcomp to make sure it still builds and then test both of them with x2go
and freenx/qtnx/binary client.
If that works, I'll push the packaging changes back to x2go and any
other changes I had to do.

So far, besides the "Additional packaging changes" listed in the above
changelog, I just had to update the nxagent manpage slightly to mention
both x2go and NX, patch attached (will send to x2go-dev along with the
rest of the patches a bit later).


-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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