[X2go-dev] nxproxy and nxcomp uploaded to Ubuntu Oneiric

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 12:45:22 (CEST), Mike Gabriel wrote:

> Hi Jonas, hi Stéphane,
>
> On Fr 20 Mai 2011 21:01:10 CEST Stéphane Graber wrote:
>
>> I'd think these two meet Debian criteria for upload, so if anyone with
>> upload rights to Debian can help getting them in there it'd help
>> minimizing the delta between Ubuntu and Debian (as I'd ask for a "sync"
>> from Debian, thereby removing any remaining delta).
>
> @Jonas: What steps are needed for this to happen? I just wanted to
> upload Stéphane's work to pkg-x2go on collab-maint (Alioth), but  Alioth
> seems to be offline.
>
> A set of very-near-future goals could be:
>
>   o drop nxcomp (and later nxcompext, nxcompshad) from code.x2go.org (X2go
>     upstream), same with nxproxy (the code is not a real fork...)

What problem would that solve? AFAIUI this step would break the PPA and
leave users of released versions of ubuntu in the cold

>   o provide X2go-specific patches for NX 3.5 upstream on X2go  upstream
> that are
>     recommended to be incorporated by package maintainers

did you already look at those 'patches'?

>   o draw Stéphanes work to collab-maint on Alioth

Why not on code.x2go.org?

>   o prepare the packages for Debian upload
>   o upload to Debian sid
>   o sync to Ubuntu oneiric
>   o from then on: use Alioth for the package maintenance (and sync to Ubuntu)

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