On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:21:18PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:49:33PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > 0) Start using alternatives for vnc. > > > > 0.1) Link svncviewer staically with libvncauth instead > > of dynamically. > > > > 1) Package tightvnc as: > > tightvncserver, provides vncserver > > tight[x?]vncclient, provides vncviewer > > tightvnc-doc > > > > The hard part is to test that they can coexist. > > Why do they need to coexist with the other implementation? They could > simply conflict.
Probably because I'm a person who wants to make everything "good" way. I will get bugs about "why can they not coexist??!" and to fix them I have to do this anyway, but in a easier way. :) > > 2) Change the vnc package to realvnc > > realvncserver, provides vncserver > > realvncviewer, provides vncviewer > > vnc-common (I have to check what's in there). > > These names suck. They imply that the other implementation is not > real. Maybe something involving 'vanilla' would be better. Agreed! The problem is that (as people have told already) the new (the same crew as far as I know) upstream call themself realvnc... I think I stick to the upstream name. An other solution is to not change the name and make it provide rfbserver and rfbclient. Maybe that is not a bad solution after all. :) It makes it less hard for me ;) > > 3) Ask for the removal of the old vnc packages. > > For one release, make them metapackages that depend on the tightvnc > packages - that way people who do nothing will continue to have the > same packages that they always did (I presume that vnc* is tightvnc in > woody). And with the new solution I do not have to make this step. > > 4) Change name of vnc-java to realvnc-java And not this either. > > 5) Package tightvnc-java. > > Same thing applies. > > > 2) Do I have to ask for vncserver and vncviewer as they > > become virtual packages? > > Parse error. Policy requirement. Do I have to have this in official virtual package list (I maintain all the packages right now, including rfb if I want to)? Well I will probably ask for it anyway, but that is assuming that I get it to work at all. Regards, // Ola > -- > .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield > : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, > `. `' | Imperial College, > `- -><- | London, UK -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | +46 (0)54-10 14 30 +46 (0)70-332 1551 | | http://www.opal.dhs.org UIN/icq: 4912500 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
