Bug#887394: Packaging Veyon (was: Re: Accepted italc 1:3.0.3+dfsg1-2 (source) into unstable)

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi Tobi,

On  Do 06 Dez 2018 15:04:32 CET, Tobias Junghans wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> thank you very much for your efforts! I'll try to adopt as many of  
> the changes
> as possible for the 4.1.6 release.

:-)

> Regarding the package structure: everything looks fine so far. You could put
> veyon-ctl in a separate package but probably it's better to postpone  
> this step
> until Veyon 4.2 has been released (where we'll rename veyon-ctl to veyon-cli
> which would lead to package renames and the first transitional packages).

Ok. Sounds like a plan...

> Do you plan to add transitional packages for existing iTALC installations so
> that users get migrated to Veyon automatically?

No. I won't either offer a pre-configuration debconf question journey.  
The new ACL model in Veyon is so highly flexible, a default setup can  
only be wrong for someone.

> Regarding libvncserver/libvncclient: I'm actively working with  
> upstream to get
> all Veyon-specific changes merged in a generic manner so we can use an
> existing libvncclient library from the system. Currently the only thing left
> is to disable the broken (non thread-safe) IPv4 support in favor of the new
> (existing and generic) IPv6 code in libvncclient. Once libvncserver 0.9.12 is
> released and about to be packaged we could even solve this with a small
> Debian-specific patch.

That is awesome news!!!

> > Furthermore, here comes another request: how could we bring the Veyon
> > documentation files (as source files, as built Sphinx documentation)
> > into Debian? I'd say it makes sense having those docs packaged, so
> > they can be made available offline.
>
> As you probably already know the sources for the docs are available at
> https://github.com/veyon/docs and can be built via sphinx easily. For future
> releases I can create tags for the docs as well so you can simply download a
> tarball which can be used as source tarball for a separate  
> veyon-docs package.

+1 from here!

Thanks+Greets,
Mike

PS: upload will come soon...

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