On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Peter Rockai (mornfall) wrote:
I was asked to write to this list, because supposedly someone of the
Skolelinux crew is working on NX packaging. So i would like to point you
at the ITP filed on nx (#255850) and the packages available in the
repository:
deb http://www.kalyxo.org/debian/ experimental main
deb-src http://www.kalyxo.org/debian/ experimental main
You can of course get the source as well. The packages were done in an
FHS compliant way and were tested on several machines. They however
contain no nxserver or nxclient as of now, but i'll be working with
Fabian Franz and Joseph Wenninger on integrating FreeNX and kNX stuff
with them. I'll send an update when there's something new.
Many thanks for this information. I also think that this while very
interesting for debian-edu in special also an issue on debian-devel. BTW,
the URL above contains more interesting packages. Do you have trouble
finding a sponsor for these packages or are there other reasons why they
stay outside Debian? I would really hate if finding a sponsor would holding
back NX from entering Debian. Perhaps it would be a good idea to think
about moving the existing packages to debian experimental. This would have
the following advantages:
1) Sponsoring procedure would be established.
2) Packages would enter the override file which needs about 1-2 weeks
for new packages
3) Would attract more developers to help