Bug#255850: [Pkg-nx-group] freenx debian packaging

[Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org>]

Emilio Scalise schrieb am Tuesday, den 08. January 2008:

> There was a google summer of code about the integration of nx and xorg. Nobody 
> did it :-(
> 
> I understand all the concerns about creating a "clean" package. But what about
Its not about clean, its about supporting and code duplication.

> a semi-ufficial package (maybe for experimental) until things will change?
This package will never be accepted by the ftp-master. He told me that
personally. So - no - there is no chance. 

> 
> As all of you already said on the pkg-nx-group mailing list, Suse and redhat 
> do this, and event support it with security patches.
> 
> So why we can't do it? I don't want to start a religious flame.
You can do if you want. I'm personally not interested if the package won't go
into main. And I don't want to do security support for such a nightmare on my
own. 

> 
> Like we do with ati and nvidia closed drivers we could write on the 
> description why freenx and nx is bad. Then the user will choose to use it or 
> not.
Its a nightmare to support. The debian security team will not. 

Alex