Bug#887394: Packaging Veyon (was: Re: Accepted italc 1:3.0.3+dfsg1-2 (source) into unstable)

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Tobi,

On  Do 06 Dez 2018 15:04:32 CET, Tobias Junghans wrote:

Hi Mike,


as possible for the 4.1.6 release.

thank you very much for your efforts! I'll try to adopt as many of the changes

:-)

Regarding the package structure: everything looks fine so far. You could put

until Veyon 4.2 has been released (where we'll rename veyon-ctl to veyon-cli
which would lead to package renames and the first transitional packages).

veyon-ctl in a separate package but probably it's better to postpone this step

Ok. Sounds like a plan...

Do you plan to add transitional packages for existing iTALC installations so
that users get migrated to Veyon automatically?

No. I won't either offer a pre-configuration debconf question journey. The new ACL model in Veyon is so highly flexible, a default setup can only be wrong for someone.

Regarding libvncserver/libvncclient: I'm actively working with upstream to get

all Veyon-specific changes merged in a generic manner so we can use an
existing libvncclient library from the system. Currently the only thing left
is to disable the broken (non thread-safe) IPv4 support in favor of the new
(existing and generic) IPv6 code in libvncclient. Once libvncserver 0.9.12 is
released and about to be packaged we could even solve this with a small
Debian-specific patch.

That is awesome news!!!

Furthermore, here comes another request: how could we bring the Veyon
documentation files (as source files, as built Sphinx documentation)
into Debian? I'd say it makes sense having those docs packaged, so
they can be made available offline.

As you probably already know the sources for the docs are available at
https://github.com/veyon/docs and can be built via sphinx easily. For future
releases I can create tags for the docs as well so you can simply download a

tarball which can be used as source tarball for a separate veyon-docs package.

+1 from here!

Thanks+Greets,
Mike

PS: upload will come soon...

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