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

[Emilio Scalise <emisca@rocketmail.com>]

So the only solution is to switch to xrdp + vnc4server (that on lan is good 
enough for my needs), or nomachine proprietary packages if I really want to 
use nx (on low bandwidth links, nx is unbeatable).
This is sad, but there are no other alternatives.....

I hope that sometime the nx protocol will be implemented as an clean xorg 
extension or an alternative with similar performance will be developed.

Il Wednesday 09 January 2008 10:22:07 Alexander Wirt ha scritto:
> 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