On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 12:30:41AM +1000, Sam Johnston wrote: > 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.
Hmm, would he have a problem with a patched version, or just with 1.0.0? > 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. 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. > 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. Yeah, that's what I figured. The rest of the crypto code looks okay, but IANAL... I haven't really been following the debate about crypto export, so I don't know what the us/non-us situation would be. -brad > > - 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 > > >
