Update to 3.18 (remove controls needed for Unity and other desktops)

[Robert Ancell]

Update to 3.16.

A big change in this release is to remove the preferences dialog, not sure if this is a problem for us.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700070 for rationale on preferences removal

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's indeed a problem for us, they are dropping it because they have the controls in the new gnome-control-center privacy panel, we don't have that version though

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

3.10 is in debian, how difficult would it be to merge?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It would be trivial to merge and get an useless vino in return (since we don't have gnome-control-center 3.10 we wouldn't have any configuration interface)

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

I've proposed moving the Vino preferences into unity-control-center: lp:~robert-ancell/unity-control-center/screen-sharing

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Now it's 3.18.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The update doesn't bring much out of dropping the standalone settings dialogs that are used out of GNOME

[Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)]

Is this done for xenial?

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

>Is this done for xenial?

No (at least not yet). See the versions available in different Ubuntu releases on the overview page https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vino

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

It is better to fork or stay at 3.8. I , for example use preference over ssh (with x11 forwarding) to setup vnc remotely. If preference is moved under unity-control-center, there will be no easy way to achieve this.

[Alexander E. Patrakov (patrakov-gmail)]

Note that Vino 3.8.1 bundles a very old libvncserver, with significant image quality problems. One example is attached to https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/issues/737

I do not object to forking 3.8.1, as long as the fork is updated to use the latest libvncserver.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the libvncserver copy doesn't seem to have been updated upstream either in newer versions, https://git.gnome.org/browse/vino/log/server/libvncserver

[Jeremy Bicha (jbicha)]

I looked into this today. The .desktop for the preferences dialog in Ubuntu's vino 3.8 has OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity; set so the removed preferences dialog really only affects Unity.

If the removed preferences dialog is not a blocker, we are good with merging vino 3.22 with Debian. The only remaining Ubuntu diff is enabling the system miniupnpc patch.

That patch was disabled in Debian in 2012 with this message:
"Disable 05_use-system-miniupnpc.patch for now, until we have a patch that is ready to be sent upstream and the Debian maintainer of miniupnpc has learned how to maintain a library package."

(The patch forces using the system miniupnpc library instead of making it optional which presumably makes it less interesting to upstream.)

I started a community topic for this update request at
https://community.ubuntu.com/t/update-vino-to-current-version-affects-unity/2537

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vino - 3.22.0-2ubuntu1

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vino (3.22.0-2ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Sync with Debian (LP: #1271358). Remaining change:
    - debian/control.in, debian/patches/05_use-system-miniupnpc.patch:
      + Build with system miniupnpc library

vino (3.22.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop unneeeded Suggests (gnome-user-guide, vinagre)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.1.2
  * Update Vcs fields for conversion to git
  * Add debian/gbp.conf
  * Bump debhelper compat to 11

vino (3.22.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

vino (3.21.92-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add Build-Depends on gnome-common, required for autoreconf.
    (Closes: #837791)
  * Use a non-multiarch path for libexecdir as we did before the dh
    conversion.

vino (3.21.92-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream development release.
  * Add Build-Depends on libice-dev and libsm-dev as per configure.ac.
  * Add Build-Depends on systemd on Linux to get the correct path for the
    systemd user unit directory.
  * Convert from cdbs to dh.
  * Enable all hardening build flags.
  * Bump debhelper compat level to 10.

vino (3.20.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump debhelper compatibility level to 9.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.8.

vino (3.20.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Drop obsolete Breaks and fix the version for the gnome-control-center
    Breaks.

vino (3.20.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7

vino (3.18.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

vino (3.18.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.

vino (3.16.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Drop Build-Depends on network-manager-dev and bump Build-Depends on
    libglib2.0-dev to (>= 2.32.0). Drop the obsolete configure switch
    accordingly. Vino now uses GNetworkMonitor rather than NetworkManager
    D-Bus interfaces.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6. No further changes.
  * Update Homepage URL.

vino (3.14.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * Add gnome-control-center (<< 3.13.2) to Breaks.
    - previous versiones of g-c-c used the now removed "enabled" schema
      key in the sharing panel.

vino (3.14.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Upload to unstable.

vino (3.13.90-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream development release.
    - Note: no longer started by gnome-session, now by g-s-d sharing instead.
  * Have quilt refresh patches.
  * debian/rules: drop vino-server.desktop autostart file move since
    we're now started by gnome-settings-daemon sharing plugin instead
    so the file is no longer installed under /etc/xdg/autostart.

vino (3.12.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Build-depend against libgnutls28-dev and libgcrypt20-dev (Closes: #753164)
    - Instead of libgnutls-dev (gnutls26) and libgcrypt11-dev
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5

vino (3.12.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Update build-dependencies according to configure.ac changes:
    - drop libsoup2.4
  * Make vino suggest ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-control-center - 15.04.0+17.10.20171225-0ubuntu1

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unity-control-center (15.04.0+17.10.20171225-0ubuntu1) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Azzarone ]
  * sound: Discard selection-changed events that are not triggered
    by the user (lp: #1716359)

  [ Dale Beaudoin ]
  * version change 17.10 to 18.04 LTS

  [ Khurshid Alam ]
  * Merge Robert Ancell's Desktop Sharing panel since Vino
    no longer provides its own settings app (LP: #1271358)

 -- Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> Mon, 25 Dec 2017 14:10:10 -0500