On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 8:04 AM Dave Kempe <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Sat, May 16, 2020, 9:30 PM Nick Couchman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> For Debian, if you can find an Ubuntu repository with the packages they
>> may be compatible, but it's hard to say.
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> Would you be interested in PRs with packaging info? Would make making a
> package easier if we can contribute packaging code into upstream I guess.
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I do not believe that, as a project, we're interested in maintaining
packaging information for distributions directly.  It's possible that it is
discouraged or disallowed by ASF, though I'm uncertain about that one, but,
that aside, I don't think it's practical.  As a development community we
have a hard enough time keeping up with all of the feature requests and
bugs, and adding packaging to the list of things we maintain as the
Guacamole Project doesn't seem like something that would be wise to take on.

If that's something you are interesting in building/maintaining, my best
advice is to volunteer to do it for that particular distribution/repository
that you have expertise in or association with.  I think that's a more
scalable model for packaging, anyway, as it allows for others who are also
familiar with and invested in various distributions to jump in and help out
with maintaining those packages going forward, and allows this community to
focus on developing the software.


> In the interim, we have tested and fleshed out the guacamole ansible role
> here and it works great on Debian 10:
> https://gitlab.sol1.net/sars/sol1-guacamole
> It will function as an installer if nothing else. Care should of course be
> taken to put in more secure password values etc
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Very good to know, thanks for the confirmation of that!  It's great to get
these community resources publicized, particularly when they work well.

-nick

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