Bug#84819: rdesktop
Brad,
Thanks for your interest. Yes I do indeed plan to package rdesktop... in
fact I have a 1.0.0 package ready for action, however I've refrained from
uploading it on the grounds that the author, Matt Chapman, assures me that
some time in the not too distant future he will be merging the patches
into a 1.1 release, and would rather I wait till then.
As 1.0 is fairly broken without the patches I think it's probably worth
the wait (unless I were to build a package with the patches which is
likely to break versioning - any suggestions?). I really want to see a
working rdesktop in the next release of Debian which probably means we
should get something up there sooner rather than later.
Your crypto patches (which make use of GMP in place of the german arith
code) would be a welcome addition no doubt. The existing license appears
to allow for non-commercial use only and thus violates DFSG.
- samj
On Sat, 5 May 2001, Bradley Bell wrote:
> Hi, are you still working on packaging rdesktop? I noticed that, though
> it's GPL, it contains a few files with a non-free license (crypto/arith.c
> crypto/arith.h, crypto/conf.h). If you're interested, I've got a patch to
> get rid of them, so rdesktop could go into main. I've also got the whole
> thing debianized, if you want to take a look. I'll have it all uploaded to
> http://people.debian.org/~btb/src/rdesktop/ pretty soon.
>
> -brad
>
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