Working with Debian is a nut I've yet to crack. I haven't got further
than my own PPAs.
I've tried before but it seems a lot more complicated than it needs to be.
When I hear about a year long process to become a Debian developer and
the need for mentoring I tend to glaze over...
I'll have to try at some point but my time is expensive and I don't have
a lot of time for games, especially when it's pro bono...
You didn't read my message. The existing packages of freerdp2 inside
Ubuntu are ancient pre-release development git snapshots from February 2019.
There have been major changes to fix all sorts of problems. There are
2663 closed issues on github.
It's hard to map exactly how many came after that snapshot in February
2019 with the UI in front of me but it's a lot of them.
It also includes fixes to address significant 14 security vulnerabilities.
It is not recommended to run guacamole against an ancient snapshot
release like that. Frankly it won't work properly and will be insecure.
A lot of things didn't work for me until I recompiled against a specific
freerdp2 daily from the date of release of the stable release.
It's an ugly work around but it worked for now.
Upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to the stable 20.04 release requires a mysql
database upgrade from 5.7 to 8.0.
Guacamole 1.1.0 stopped working after I upgraded my OS. Not at all
surprising since Guacamole 1.1.0 was installed completely un-packaged.
Basically it was unable to connect to the upgraded database.
Digging around in the guacamole bug reports, I believe it is because it
needs some support for a newer database connector that will work with
1.2.0 once it is released. Obviously 1.2.0 released isn't yet available
so I'm stuck in a holding pattern in terms of being able to upgrade.
- Rob
On 2020-05-21 3:40 p.m., Mike Jumper wrote:
On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 12:30 PM Robert Hardy <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Currently the extreme lack of packaging for both guacamole and
freerdp2 is really holding use of both project back.
If you would like to work with Debian to produce packages of
Guacamole, I'm sure they would welcome the assistance.
Currently there seem to be two blocking issues:
1. Due to database changes, 1.2.0 of guacamole is needed in order
to be able to upgrade to the current stable of release of 20.04
Ubuntu. That isn't available.
What database changes are you referring to?
2. The build dependency of freerdp2 release is not available.
Isn't it? https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/freerdp2-dev
- Mike
