[X2go-dev] Starting to get x2go into Ubuntu Oneiric

[Stéphane Graber]

Hello,

Last week in Budapest at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, we discussed the
next steps for WebLive[1] in Ubuntu.

One of the things we identified as really important is to move away from
FreeNX and use X2go instead as it's a much more active project.

Last week I already got our application servers running with both FreeNX
and X2go and I have some experimental integration code for the Ubuntu
Software Center that I'll continue working on over the next few weeks.

One of the things we need to do before we can use x2go by default for
WebLive is getting it into the Ubuntu archive and at least for the
client part into the "main" component (supported set of packages).

Today, I'm working on updating our nxproxy, libxcomp and libxcompshad
packages to their latest upstream releases (3.5.0), merging the
excellent packaging work the x2go team has been doing.

Next on my list will be to get python-x2go into the Ubuntu archive as
that's what we'll be using for our client integration (Ubuntu Software
Center is in python) and finally I'll be working on getting the
x2goserver itself in the repository (lower priority than the rest) so we
don't need a PPA to build our servers.

I hope to have most packages built for Oneiric in my test PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~stgraber/+archive/experimental) so I can do some
tests to make sure these don't break anything (including FreeNX/qtnx)
and if everything looks good, I'll be pushing these into the archive
later this week.

Once I'm done and everything works for me, I'll be forwarding the list
of packaging changes I had to do (if any) so we can ensure your
dailybuilds and the "official" Ubuntu packages are in sync.

Thanks for the great work and looking forward to working more with you.


[1] https://launchpad.net/weblive http://www.edubuntu.org/weblive and
http://www.stgraber.org/category/weblive/


PS: Cced are Michael Vogt (Software Center), Scott Moser (AWSTrial) and
Jonathan Carter (LTSP/MOTU)

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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