Just came here to ask for better Remmina support. Use it every day, and
use Wheezy and Devuan exclusively. What's the hold up, biggest blocker /
barrier? How can I help?
Apparently, it's just the number of issues in FreeRDP 2.0. Actually, I
understand the reasoning, but I think this is an exceptional situation
specifically described somewhere in the Debian release policy: something
like "usually, packages make their way from unstable into testing when
the number of bugs is low enough, but sometimes the maintainer can
decide that the advantages of having that package outweigh the
unstability risks, so they an force it manually".
We're not talking about "from unstable into testing" right now, but the
idea is the same: anyone who actually tried both versions agrees that
the new version that works but suggests an unstable package is better
than the old version that does barely work at all.
Actually, there are only 18 bugs in Remmina 1.2.0 versus 20 bugs in
Remmina 1.1.2 in Jessie, 5 of which are "important" (3 of them being
segfaults). I'd say 18 < 20 , really. (I hope you did not count wishlist
items, "notabug"-s, "questions", "outofscope"-s and everything else
while looking at the number of open issues on Github? You did filter
them by "bugs" label, right?.. And we don't necessarily have to package
FreeRDP 2.0 - having Remmina alone would be better already.)
My experience with Remmina 1.1.2 on Jessie:
- Every few minutes, there is a segfault (important)
- When changing my layout with Alt+Shift, Alt gets stuck (important)
- Scaling doesn't work properly (important)
- Shift+Tab doesn't get across (normal, if you don't use it often)
- Sometimes the main window opens when connecting from tray (minor)
Now, I'm sorry for some off-topic, but the only package that can beat
the record of five bugs everyone is affected by is nut, which has four
100% reproducible grave bugs that render the whole critically important
package not only useless, but harmful (it's UPS management software -
you can damage your hardware and lost your data because of those bugs).
Basically, it does not shut down your machine upon power loss (which is
the purpose of the package), it does not shut down your UPS after that,
and two common workarounds for that do not work. That's partly because
of systemd, which is somehow deemed stable enough to be not only
present, but default and mandatory in Debian.
Of course, all those are fixed in Remmina 1.2.0, and it works flawlessly.
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darkpenguin
