[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX and Debian

[Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda]

A Dimecres 12 Desembre 2007 22:36, Tim Freedom va escriure:
> --- Durk Strooisma <durk at kern.nl> wrote:
> > > Is there a proper repo that can be used instead of fetching .deb
> > > packages from various potentially soon-disappearing locations ?
> > > Can Jeremy's pacakges, once proven for the mainstream debian populous
> > > out there, get included on say the FreeNX advertised debian site
> > > (http://packages.debianbase.de) or others ?  This is really important.
> >
> > You can find in the november archive information about my repos with
> > NX-packages for sarge (seems to work on etch as well). These are a bit
> > behind, but still usable; NX 2.1, FreeNX 0.6.0.
>
> And that's what I'm pointing out - various people try, get something
> going and then either abandon it and/or move on (or the links become
> stale).  Could we get your files (and Jeremy's and ...) all uploaded
> and maintained (on each release) to a single website/URL/repository ?
>
> > >> About why it didn't make it in the Debian list, look for something
> > >> like "FreeNX rewrite". This year there was a long discussion about it.
>
> In looking through this I also came across the following,
>
> 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nx-group/2007-July/thread.html
>
> but the thread seems dead (no posts since July 07) - have there been
> any resolutions to this (and many other topics I came across - new
> website, new project name, possible collaboration with the 2X team,
> etc, etc).  Can all these interesting "future centric" issues be
> noted clearly somewhere to not only lessen confusion but to spur
> contribution, support and innovation (homepage, a wiki page, etc) ?
>
Hi,

I feel a bit guilty because I tried to help in this issue and finally I have 
done nothing. Sorry Fabian, as always and many people, the time is a non 
renewed resource ....

It's no easy or trivial to have freenx in debian official: there's a problem 
(with solution) with the base code (NX) that implies that freenx fails. The 
nxlibs is a "fork" of the  Xfree before and now Xorg and also have some 
security issues that have to take care. Think in mind that a maintenable 
solution is to have an "official" debian package of nx, not severals projects 
as now.

One one the solutions that with Fabian we talked was to create a real fork of 
the NX libs , also create a new project, something like "freenx is dead" we 
move to ....... (VLSC?) with the idea to create a NX libs, which are based 
the project is some kind of wrapped code to the Xorg in the way that it will 
be possible to have a "official" debian package in a future.

I said to Fabian that I will try to help in this, and I finally have done 
nothing (sorry....) so, the things are more or less in this situation.... 

Best regards,

Leo