[X2Go-Dev] X2Go packaging (Was: X2Go organigram)

[Oliver Burger]

2013/3/12 Moritz Struebe <Moritz.Struebe at informatik.uni-erlangen.de>:
>> My problem is the "rpm-based distros" part.
>> As I see it, packaging for any and all rpm based distros at the same
>> time is just not possible. Of course you can package for some of them
>> at the same time using OBS, but then you will just have some rpm
>> packages and you should note that somewhere.
>> The way user's minds work is "There is a rpm package, I can't install
>> it on my distro, so that distro must have some serious problems", even
>> if the problem is just the package was not built for that distro...
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>
> Ok, so what is your suggestion? Do not provide no packages at all. Add a
> big red warning? Try to find packagers for those (are you volunteering?).
>
> I personally prefer the latter two. ;)
>
Yes, I am. If you are interested in Mageia packages...
For me it would just mean rebuilding my packages for the stable
releases and make sure not to break anything by doing so.

As for other distros, we will just have to find the package maintainers...

Oliver