On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 16:47:35 (CET), Mike Gabriel wrote:
Additionally, the Ubuntu packaging will soon be covered fully by Uni Erlangen, but more on that will be readable in Heinz's mail within the next days.
Clarifications:
a) my name is spelled 'Reinhard'
b) I don't "do" the ubuntu packaging, nor will "Uni Erlangen" do something what you state. I'm both a Debian Developer and Ubuntu Developer and think the work is better spent on having the package first in Debian proper, as Ubuntu basically has similar requirements and there is an straight forward process that copies packages from Debian to Ubuntu. Since it's creation about 5 weeks ago, I'm the only one who has actually contributed something substantial to the 'official' Debian x2go packaging team: an almost ready x2goclient package suitable for inclusion into the main Debian archive:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-x2go-devel/2011-January/000000....
However, it has still neither found their way to the designated git branches in collab-maint on alioth.debian.org, nor to the Debian archive.
Moreover, I'm surprised (not to say irritated) that while Jonas welcomed me to the team, your mail (the one I'm replying to right now) clearly states otherwise.
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-x2go-devel/2011-February/000003...
c) As a proof of concept and development environment for our internal x2go test-deployment, I have built an integration archive that builds daily packages from the development branches at http://i4git.informatik.uni-erlangen.de. This is mainly for easily and quickly testing developments. Currently, it ships a working x2goserver, x2goclient and x2gognomebindings for ubuntu/lucid and ubuntu/natty.
https://launchpad.net/~siretart/+archive/x2go
I'd suggest to create a team PPA for the newly created x2go team in launchpad and move the packages there.
The packaging there (and the same BTW applies to the branches at code.x2go.org) is in no way "clean" and as such, not suitable for proper inclusion into neither Debian and Ubuntu. TBH, I think there is a considerable amount of cleanup work to be done (like, writing proper installation scripts in makefiles, etc.) before we can even consider packaging it properly.
-- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4