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Re: Thoughts about vnc-java

Hi,

On  Fr 30 Okt 2020 21:03:45 CET, Sven Geuer wrote:


Hello Ola, Mike and Team,

Looking at the upstream source code and the tightvnc-java changelog
vnc-java [1] is a predecessor of tightvnc-java [2]. The only major
difference seems to be that vnc-java is the companion package of
another server package, vncserver, instead of tighvncserver. vncserver
in turn disappeared from Debian during 2010, if my findings are
correct.

The functionalities of vnc-java and tightvnc-java are the same, only
the calls differ:

/usr/bin/jvncviewer				versus	/usr/bin/jtightvncviewer
/usr/share/java/vncviewer.jar			versus  /usr/share/java/tightvncviewer.jar
/usr/share/vnc-java/vncviewer.jar		versus	/usr/share/tightvnc-java/VncViewer.jar
CODE=vncviewer.class ARCHIVE=vncviewer.jar versus CODE=tightvncviewer.VncViewer ARCHIVE=VncViewer.jar 

Would it make sense to convert vnc-java into a transitional package, to
bring the still existing users (see popcon [3]) over to tightvnc-java?

Or, as upstream is not available any more, ignore the upstream code and
make it using tightvnc-java as its backend to do the real job?

Or even make it a native Debian package using tightvnc-java as its
backend to do the real job?

Or, ...


How about simply removing vnc-java from Debian?
I wouldn't trust popcon that much here. Do you have any other evidence that the package is really used by people (or by dependent packages). 

Old and unmaintained code should be removed from Debian.
One could think about shipping a wrapper script named jvncviewer that mimicks the command link syntax of the executable in vnc-java but wraps around jtightvncviewer.
Except from that... Dump it, I'd say. (But that is just one single opinion, maybe others have other thoughts on this). 

Mike
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