Hi Todd

I agree. Thanks for the note. I think I should do this when moving
from the self contained tightvnc-java package to the package with
the normal tightvnc package source instead.

Best regards,

// Ola

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:06:41PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> Package: tightvnc-java
> Version: 1.2.7-6
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> The tightvnc-java package in debian, like the vnc-java package (see bug
> #445338) doesn't support the ZRLE encoding scheme which is now the
> default with current VNC implementations. There is a newer upstream
> package that fixes this (TightVNC Java Viewer 1.3.10), implementing ZRLE
> as well as a number of other enhancements and fixes.
> 
> Lack of ZRLE encoding can degrade the performance over WAN connections,
> and so should not be considered simply a wishlist item. This package
> really needs to be updated in order to fully-support current VNC
> implementations.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (550, 
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> 
> 

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