Bug#880531: libvncclient1: Can't connect to VMware

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi Matthew,

thanks for reporting this bug.

On Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:19:07 -0400 Matthew Gabeler-Lee 
<cheetah@fastcat.org> wrote:
> Package: libvncclient1
> Version: 0.9.11+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> libvncclient has a bug with how it expresses the truecolor pixel format
> which causes an error talking to VMware servers.
>
> This looks to have been fixed upstream, so just need to import this 
fix or
> package a new upstream version:
>
> https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/pull/170
> https://github.com/LibVNC/libvncserver/issues/141

As the new libvncserver Debian maintainer, I have prepared a test build 
and upload candidate for Debian buster of libvncserver that fixes this 
issue:
http://packages.sunweavers.net/debian/pool/main/libv/libvncserver/

You can also add "deb http://packages.sunweavers.net/debian buster main" 
to your APT configuration and use apt for installing the upload 
candidate. (Make sure you disable the repo again afterwards and that you 
don't grab other packages from there by accident).

Here is the archive key:
https://packages.sunweavers.net/archive.key

If you don't have time for testing this, I'd appreciate a quick feedback 
anyway.

Greets + Thanks,
Mike