Be advised that Debian bug 444697 "fixes" this bug by REMOVING libvnc.so.
And I quote:
"Removed libvnc.so that do not work with recent xorg. This is a workaround but 
solves the grave fault, closes: #444697. No longer provides x0vnc-server."

This tacitly suggests that Xorg does not support libvnc.so at this time.
In any case bug 444697 does not solve the problem.
Debian merely removed the feature that fails and closes the bug.  It is 
terribly irresponsible to close the bug after removing the feature that causes 
the bug from a project management standpoint--the non-working libvnc.so is now 
orphaned and completely untracked (there is no bug I can find that tracks 
non-working libvnc.so).  The closing of this bug implies it to be fixed when it 
was not.

For what it's worth, the "vino" remote desktop feature now built-in to
the GNOME desktop is worthless to remote users because it only works if
the user is already logged in.  This is very unfortunately for those of
us who rely on libvnc:  if you're logged out you cannot log in
remotely!!  The workaround is a horribly security deficient automatic
login prompt bypass using gdm or kdm.

Too bad.

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Xorg module VNC cores on keyboard input
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/180619
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