Bug#84819: rdesktop

[Sam Johnston <samj@samj.net>]

> Hmm, would he have a problem with a patched version, or just with 1.0.0?

Matt assures me that the patched version breaks quite a few things
(although he didn't specify what). He said it will take a few solid days
for him to get it to where he wants it for a 1.1. I know he's busy though
with uni/sysadminning/samba/etc. so I offered to find some 'sponsorship'
(even if that means paying him myself :) ). My last discussion with him
was about a month ago.

> I think a patched version ought to be fine.  The "unified" series from
> http://bibl4.oru.se/projects/rdesktop/ is pretty stable, and even works with
> w2k server.
> It shouldn't break versioning, as long as it's in the form 1.0.0-whatever.

So we can upload the 1.0.0 release, follow it up with 1.0.0-up19.5.10 or
similar and then with 1.1.0 when Matt gets around to it? And apt will
track the upgrades (ie 1.0.0->1.0.0-up19.5.10->1.1.0)? I'd want to
be fairly sure that's the case first. Sounds good to me.

> I haven't really been following the debate about crypto export, so I don't
> know what the us/non-us situation would be.

I suspect we'll have to put it in non-us for now, but who know's what will
come of current discussions about relaxed export laws et al.

I don't see your GMP patch in the unified patches... perhaps that would be
a good place for it?

 - 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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