Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Friday 13 January 2012, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: [...] > > 1. Did anybody *really* *honestly* tried to base NX protocol > > on plain X libraries? If this is not possible > > FreeNX upstream tried to rebase them to X.org long time ago and claimed This was intended to mean modu

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Friday 13 January 2012, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:39:02AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > And still, my basic (inner and outer) question is: > > > > 1. how can we enrol other people with our endeavour > > 2. what is needed to enrol people > > 3. is there a

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Fr, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:10:16 (CET), Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/13/2012 05:23 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> On Fr 13 Jan 2012 10:00:29 CET Alexander Wirt wrote: >> Note that we have tested loads of different build variants against Xorg 7. The highest stability (which is

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:50:37AM +, Philip Hands wrote: > Yes, having talked to the lead developer on NX _years_ ago (2003 IIRC), > he spent quite some time trying to persuade the X folks that he had ways > of getting rid of (largely pointless) round-trips and the like. He said > that having

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 08:39:02AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > And still, my basic (inner and outer) question is: > > 1. how can we enrol other people with our endeavour > 2. what is needed to enrol people > 3. is there anyonr in this discussion who can point us to next possible steps >

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Phil, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 12:50:37 CET Philip Hands wrote: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:35:30 +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: ... Everything in this mail is just a guess, things in reality have very probably been completely different. Yes, having talked to the lead developer on NX _years_ ago (2003

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Philip Hands
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:35:30 +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: ... > Everything in this mail is just a guess, things in reality have very > probably been completely different. Yes, having talked to the lead developer on NX _years_ ago (2003 IIRC), he spent quite some time trying to persuade the X fol

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Thomas, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 12:10:16 CET Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/13/2012 05:23 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote: Hi Alex, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 10:00:29 CET Alexander Wirt wrote: Note that we have tested loads of different build variants against Xorg 7. The highest stability (which is virtually no s

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/13/2012 05:23 PM, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Hi Alex, > > On Fr 13 Jan 2012 10:00:29 CET Alexander Wirt wrote: > >>> Note that we have tested loads of different build variants against >>> Xorg 7. The highest stability (which is virtually no session crashes >>> anymore) we ever achieved is by the w

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Alex, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 10:00:29 CET Alexander Wirt wrote: Note that we have tested loads of different build variants against Xorg 7. The highest stability (which is virtually no session crashes anymore) we ever achieved is by the way we currently build the code as one monolith. This is not

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
Mike Gabriel schrieb am Freitag, den 13. Januar 2012: > Hi Alex, > > On Fr 13 Jan 2012 08:55:17 CET Alexander Wirt wrote: > > >brian m. carlson schrieb am Friday, den 13. January 2012: > > > >>On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > >>> On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stef

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Alex, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 08:55:17 CET Alexander Wirt wrote: brian m. carlson schrieb am Friday, den 13. January 2012: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > >forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. > >

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-13 Thread Alexander Wirt
brian m. carlson schrieb am Friday, den 13. January 2012: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > > On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > > >forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. > > > > This is indeed the case. > > I can't speak for the ftp

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Brianm, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 04:04:38 CET "brian m. carlson" wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. This is indeed the case. I can't speak for the ftpmasters

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi all, On Fr 13 Jan 2012 06:40:45 CET Thomas Goirand wrote: On 01/13/2012 11:04 AM, brian m. carlson wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. This is indeed

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/13/2012 11:04 AM, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > >> On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: >> >>> forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. >>> >> This is indeed the case. >> > I can't speak f

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:57:37AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > >forked monolithic X.org 6.9 source tree. > > This is indeed the case. I can't speak for the ftpmasters and Security Team, but honestly I can't see why they would allow

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Stefan, I am discussing here being in a double role. I am part of X2Go upstream, redistributing the nx-libs tarballs and also member of the Debian X2Go packaging team. On Fr 13 Jan 2012 00:37:57 CET Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: Hi On Friday 13 January 2012, Mike Gabriel wrote: Pack

Re: Bug#655618: ITP: nx-libs -- NX protocol libraries and binaries

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Friday 13 January 2012, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Version: N/A; reported 2012-01-06 > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name : nx-libs >Version : 3.5.0.3 >Upstream Author : Mike Gabriel, Oleksandr Shneyder, Reinhard Tartler > * URL : wiki.x2go.org > * License : GPLv2 >