ship xvnc4viewer by default (in main)

[Jonh Wendell]

Is there a [real] reason to ship outdated xvncviewer in 'main', when there is a new version (xvnc4viewer) in 'universe'?

If it's just for backward compatibility (as described in packages's description), we could leave the older version on universe.

Can you do an 'exchange' ? New version get in main, old version get in universe.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Confirming, vnc should just be removed entirely, and vnc4 should be promoted to main. This needs UVF exception from Tollef ATM, though.

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

This sounds fine with me, after beta.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

Does 'after beta' mean now? :)

[Joe Baker (joebaker)]

Here at a small manufacturing firm, we are trying to migrate to Linux. The remaining Windows desktops have access to a Linux desktop via each user's own personal VNC Server account on the Linux machines. I've found that the RealVNC Server outperforms the TightVNC server in my experience. I discovered it when running RealVNC rpms from FedoraCore on my Mandriva LTSP server. Since moving to Ubuntu I'm quite happy that RealVNC Server is integrated into Ubuntu although bug#78282 is concerning. I have a Feisty install at home and I can try to see what could be done to get vnc4server to work on it.

I am in favor of seeing RealVNC moved to becoming the default program for vncserver and vnviewer. It's a solid program. Something to watch out for though in all the VNC Server products is keymapping. Test the numeric keypad, ctrl-z (undo) for proper functions from several vnc clients.

-Joe Baker

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

vnc has been demoted to universe.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

vnc4 has been promoted to main and I changed the seeds; this still needs -meta uploads to be completely fixed, will do them in a bit.

[Jonh Wendell (wendell)]

By the way, i'm developing a VNC client for the GNOME desktop that hopefully will get in 2.20, as part of vino package.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

New *-meta packages uploaded.

[Kees Cook (kees)]

Owch; I wish I had seen this earlier. I do not recommend vnc4 being in main; the vnc4 package is not well maintained.