CC'ing Luca, maintainer of grdc. Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > retitle 547314 RM: tsclient -- ROM; Unmaintained, better alternatives [PLEASE > WAIT] > thanks > > Hi Emilio, hi Joseph, > > Emilio, have you seen that message from Joseph?
No, I guess he didn't CC me. > Joseph, have you considered adopting the package yourself? I wouldn't mind that, but from a QA point of view think that this is unmaintained upstream (or was, I see a little activity upstream now). > On 18/09/09 at 23:03 -0400, Joseph Miller wrote: >> "Better" is pretty subjective and may be jumping the gun considering >> tsclient has features lacking in grdc. I do not have the most current >> version of grdc (I have 0.3.0), but the version that I have lacks a >> fullscreen mode selection, sound redirection, keyboard features, remotely >> mapping disk drive, remotely mapping printers, start program on connect, >> motion events option, wm decorations, and attach to console. In grdc's >> defense, grdc seems to have an option for compression lacking in tsclient. Luca, any idea if those features are available in grdc? >> If grdc has included all of this functionality, then I agree, remove the >> non-maintained tsclient. Is the problem that rdesktop's current version is >> becoming difficult to compile on newer versions of Debian? If neither of >> these, however, please remember that this package may not be the most >> popular package, but for the people who use it - it is extremely important. >> Removing a package that provides interoperability with other systems is a >> very serious thing. I know that the underlying rdesktop is always >> available, but that's not a simple replacement for tsclient. I wish that >> tsclient was installed by default, but this is unlikely and probably not >> practical considering it is not well-maintained. I think it was installed by default (together with Vinagre) up to now in a GNOME default installation, but we're changing that to Vinagre plus Grdc (or perhaps just one of them in the future if Vinagre grows RDP or decide to ship Grdc only). >> Full-disclosure: I recently wrote the patch to tsclient for printer >> redirection (which I use every day) which just made it in the upstream but >> hasn't been released. I would of course like to see this make it to a >> distro. Most importantly, I would like this and the above-stated >> functionality to be available. If grdc can do these things, I have no >> objection whatsoever to removing tsclient. >> >> -Joseph Miller > Cheers, Emilio
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