On Thu, 07 Aug 2014, Brian Hinz wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Yaroslav Halchenko > <[1]deb...@onerussian.com> wrote:
> - I see that there is some packaging available in upstream sources now, > done by Brian (CCed). Brian -- would you be interested to join our > tigervnc Debian packaging team to not duplicate efforts and avoid > proliferation of tigervnc debian package names? > See [2]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-tigervnc/ > all packaging is under Git and I am looking at changes from Matthias > atm. > Hi Yaroslav, > Thanks for reaching out. Hi Brian, thanks for getting back! > Yes, I would like be involved in the debian > packaging effort. However, in the interest of full disclosure I should > admit that (1) as you've probably already guessed from my packages, I'm a > novice at building debian packages, and (2) my bandwidth is all but > crippled at the moment (though I'll assist in whatever way I can). That is perfectly fine -- even minor feedback from you on our approach/problems, have you spotted some, could be very valuable! > I have some questions about your package: > (1) Where is the java viewer? Being as it's my primary contribution to > the project, I'd kinda like to see it included ;) I guess we have not packaged that one yet :-/ yet another TODO ;) Is Java viewer functioning fine with OpenJDK implementation? > (2) Have all of Pierre's Fltk patches been incorporated into the native > debian Fltk package? hm, personally -- don't know. looking at the packaging 1.3.2-6 we have doesn't seems to carry this one, http://www.fltk.org/str.php?L2599, which was not even accepted upstream... so we might indeed need to proceed with a somewhat impaired functionality for now (if that is not critical fixes) > If not, the viewer will lack full functionality. (I > realize that statically linking the fltk libs into our binary is > problematic from a distro point of view). my primary goal would be to get tigervnc accepted to Debian proper, i.e. for us to address original "concerns". And then we could beef it up ;-) -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko, Ph.D. http://neuro.debian.net http://www.pymvpa.org http://www.fail2ban.org Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences Dept. Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140807145757.gr8...@onerussian.com
