Hi Sven, On Mo 02 Nov 2020 18:59:13 CET, Sven Geuer wrote:
Hi Mike and Ola, Am Sonntag, den 01.11.2020, 09:45 +0100 schrieb Ola Lundqvist:Hi Transitional is the safest approach but I can live with removing it. / Ola Den fre 30 okt. 2020 21:19Mike Gabriel < mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> skrev: > 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
@Mike: The popcon numbers is the only evidence I could find of vnc-java being in use. No other package refers to vnc-java. I am fine with removing the package too. Not sure whether this happens automatically at some point in time. Sven
As Ola said, there is a specific procedure for the removal of packages from testing/unstable (removal request filed as a bug against the ftp.debian.org virtual package).
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