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Re: VNC plans.



On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:49:33PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote:
> Hello
> 
> Some people might have notived that I have made some
> (dramatic?) changes to the vnc packages. The reason is
> that the upstream development have started again. :)
> 
> The problem is that I used to have the tightvnc patches
> applied but due to the upstreams is so different, that is
> not possible anymore. The new upstream has nice new features
> and tightvnc has other nice features. They may coexist in
> the future but that is far away.
> 
> So this is what I intend to do to solve these issues:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 2) Change the vnc package to realvnc
>    realvncserver, provides vncserver
>    realvncviewer, provides vncviewer
>    vnc-common (I have to check what's in there).

Perhaps you should make the virtual package rfbserver and rfbviewer
and ditch the 'real' bit. There's already an 'rfb' package in Debian
that you should probably coordinate with. 

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