[X2Go-Dev] X2Go organigram

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Oliver,

On Di 12 Mär 2013 09:56:42 CET Oliver Burger wrote:

> 2013/3/8 Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at inai.de>:
>> On Friday 2013-03-08 16:50, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Jan Engelhard (X2Go for RPM-based distros)
>>
> Wouldn't it be better to let the distros provide their packages? After
> all that's what distros are there for, aren't they?
> Of course it's nice for an end user, when his distro does not provide
> a package and the upstream project provides it, but from a distro
> packager perspective, it's bad, since

I can only speak for Debian. At the time of writing I do not see a  
chance to get nx-libs (full) into Debian due to this outdated X.org  
tree that is behind it. So, for Debian systems, we have to provide  
packages by upstream.

Differently for Ubuntu. X2Go Server & co. could be in Ubuntu, however,  
so far I have not bothered.

Another reason for providing packages by upstream is: give the users  
the opportunity to retrieve latest releases for their favourite distro.

> - you will necver know about conflicts between third party packages
> and those provided by the distro itself.

Unless you know the distro you package for outside the distro really  
well. I am about to become a Debian Developer (only thing left is the  
account creation on the Debian infrastructure), so I am pretty much  
involved in that anyway.

> - it's kind of hard to provide universal rpm packages, as the naming
> shema of libraries and other needed packages does vary quite a lot

I have no clue at all about RPM. Others have to comment on this.

> - people will always complain to the distro's bug tracker and triaging
> teams have much fun explaining to those, that it's not the distro's
> fault as the packages in use are not provided by the distro

With Debian, you can only report bugs to packages that exist in  
Debian. The described experience I do not have here.

Greets,
Mike

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