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In , Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg-debian-org) wrote : inkscape: please enable inkboard collaborative editing features

Package: inkscape
Version: 0.43-0.0etch2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

inkscape 0.43 has collaborative, networked editing via XMPP built-in,
with the Inkboard project. More info is available about it in
/usr/share/doc/inkscape/NEWS.gz

The attached patch seems to enable this feature for the debian package.

However, upstream does say that there are known bugs in inkboard, and
of course opening any complicated desktop package to networked input
is a bit scary from a security point of view. These concerns should
be considered as well.

Mitigating the security concern somewhat is that it looks like you
need to explicitly connect to an XMPP server for any of the
connectivity to be activated, so users who stay unconnected are
proabably not in any increased risk.

Thanks for maintaining this package,

 --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (700, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages inkscape depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgc1c2 1:6.5-1 conservative garbage collector for
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2 2.6.1-1.2 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit (
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.10.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2 1:2.6.2-1.1 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared
ii libloudmouth1-0 1.0.1-4 Lightweight C Jabber library
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libperl5.8 5.8.7-9 Shared Perl library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2 2.0.16-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxml2 2.6.22-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-2 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-8 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages inkscape recommends:
ii dia 0.94.0-15 Diagram editor
ii imagemagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.2 Image manipulation programs
ii libwmf-bin 0.2.8.3-3 Windows metafile conversion tools
ii perlmagick 6:6.2.4.5-0.2 A perl interface to the libMagick
pn pstoedit <none> (no description available)
ii sketch 0.6.15-1 Interactive vector drawing program

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