Hi Mike, Hi Ola, I would be interested in maintaining tightvnc as a new member of the Debian Remote Maintainers Team. I already started some work on it in a private repository on salsa [1]. 'FTBFS with gcc-10' is already fixed. Being a DM, I currently maintain two packages under the umbrella of the Debian Security Tools Packaging Team, and had contributed to other packages of this team [2]. @Mike: May I ask you to accept me as team member to debian-remote? @Ola: Would you want to stay listed as uploader with moving tightvnc to the team? Please let me know, if you accept my application. Best, Sven [1] https://salsa.debian.org/sven-geuer-guest/tightvnc [2] https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=debmaint%40g-e-u-e-r.de On Sat, 21 Dec 2019 11:02:37 +0100 Mike Gabriel < mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote: > Hi Ola, Ben and Timo, > > On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 00:02:59 +0200 Ola Lundqvist <ola@inguza.com> wrote: > > Hi > > > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 11:50:35PM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > > > Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> writes: > > > > Although I cannot take on sole maintainership, I'm interested in the > > > > survival of the best VNC server and client in Debian. If a team can > > > > be put together, I would be happy to contribute in what small ways I > > > > can. > > > > > > I'm a daily user of vnc4server/xvnc4viewer 4.1.1+X4.3.0-31. Please let > > > me know if you need help in testing :-) > > > > > > > What about eventual replacement by TigerVNC ( http://tigervnc.org/), > > > > since upstream for that fork is actually active? > > > > > > realvncserver, tightvncserver and vnc4server all seem to contain an > > > embedded copy of xfree/Xorg source code. If tigerVNC's Xorg module > > > actually works this sounds really promising. Any idea why it is not > > > developed in the Xorg tree? Is it still because Xorg does not want > > > GPL'd code? > > > > Yes. License problems do not change over night. > > > > > The only earlier attempt on a modular Xorg vnc module I've heard about > > > is xf4vnc: http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/modular.html -- How does this > > > compare against TigerVNC? > > > > It compiles (with a few fixes), but I never got it working, at > > least not in a compatible way to the current vnc packages. > > > > I have not got either TigerVNC nor xf4vnc in a good enough way > > for release. So I do not know. > > > > Last try was a few (1-3 I do not remember) years ago though so > > things may have changed. > > > > Best regards, > > > > // Ola > > I have just looked at tightvnc in the context of my Debian LTS work and > am preparing a security upload to Debian unstable, buster and stretch > (and jessie LTS, of course). > > (I will NMU the unstable one soon with a 5 days delay). > > As tightvnc is up for adoption, I am thinking of adopting this package > and move it into the context of the Debian Remote Maintainers Team > (debian-remote@l.d.o.). I'd consider this a QA measure. And, I am quite > expertised with the imake build system that gets used for building Xvnc > (nx-libs uses it, too). > > As I understand it, the 1.x version is still maintained upstream. (There > even is a new upstream release available). > > So for providing a minimal amount of maintenance shared by several > people moving over to a team is maybe a good idea.
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