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

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Stéphane,

On Fr 20 Mai 2011 17:28:35 CEST Stéphane Graber wrote:

> Oops, I can understand the confusion :)
>
> Yes, I meant nxproxy, not nxagent.
> I'd indeed expect x2goagent to have a lot more changes than the
> libraries but it already has a different name, so it'll just be
> completely different package in the archive.
>
> I'm currently only focusing on getting python-x2go in the Ubuntu archive
> and its two depends are:
>  - nxproxy
>  - nxcomp
>
> So that's what I'm working on.
>
> Anything that's currently called "x2go*" should be uploaded using that
> as source package name and binary package name, even if an equivalent
> exists at NoMachine.
>
> The question is for:
>  - nxcomp
>  - nxcompext
>  - nxcompshad
>  - nxproxy
>
> As these are still active on NoMachine's side and don't seem to contain
> a lot of delta on x2go's side (at least for nxcomp and nxproxy).
>
> If x2go is going to break the API for these, then they need to be
> renamed to a x2go* equivalent so we can have both NoMachine's and X2go's
> version in the archive at the same time.
>
> That said, so far I haven't found any indication of an API-breaking
> change on x2go's side so I'd instead recommend having x2go maintain a
> standard patchset on top of NoMachine's version that packagers can
> easily pull in their packages.
>
> As a quick status update, I now have done an initial package for nxcomp.
> I'll be rebuild nxproxy using that new nxcomp and then will be testing
> them both this afternoon. If the result is satisfying (works as expected
> with x2goclient, python-x2go and qtnx) I'll be uploading these two to
> Ubuntu Oneiric and will send the patches to x2go-dev and pkg-x2go-devel
> for merging.
>
> Thanks

Oh great, that clarifies your plans!!!

We in upstream will discuss how to proceed with the nx* projects in  
Git (patchset vs. API change/fork etc.).

Thanks,
Mike

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