Re: [Opensync-devel] Updating debian unstable

[Michael B. <mb...@de...>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 03:36:03AM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:22:28AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > It is not out of date, it is the currently released development release,
> > as far as I know.  Also 0.22, is still in the stable release, it is not
> > gone from Debian entirely, just from testing/unstable. (There was talk
> > about reviving 0.22 just for the python plugins, which apparently seem
> > to work well for some people still, but I did not get around it so far,
> > and with the freeze in effect I doubt it is doable)
> 
> If 0.22 could return to Squeeze, that would be great.  Let me know
> how I can help, because that would make my life easier.

I have now made the case of reverting to 0.22 to the Debian release
team, let's see whether they accept this.  I believe those are the
main issues currently:

1. The syncml plugin 0.22 version is not ported to libsyncml-0.5.4.  So
unless somebody ports it, it will have to be dropped.

2. The google-calendar plugin crashes if changes have been made in the
other member.  This is ticket #750, which maybe only applies to a
google-calendar plugin ported to 4suite XML (Debian and Ubuntu have
dropped python-xml, so it had to be ported).  I found out that earlier
versions (0.x) of 4suite worked fine, see my analysis here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=468601#25
But I guess this will have to be fixed on the google-calendar side.  The
4suite port is also in that bug report to look at.

3. I had issues with the evolution plugin where changes made in its
addressbook were not reported to the engine.  I have not investigated
this in detail.

> > We could package subversion snapshots as well, but for the first part of
> > 2010, I was not aware of any major advances in opensync which would have
> > warranted that.
> 
> I think it is less about progress made or not, and more about having an
> automated system for creating binary packages for people who just want
> to run a quick test and help developers.

Automatic building and uploading does not really work well with Debian,
uploads are supposed to happen manually.  Also, the opensync API has
still been changing and packages might be broken more than working.  It
would make more sense to have more regular releases of opensync, in my
opinion.

Once squeeze is out and 0.4x packages work somewhat reliably, I can
upload backports of them for squeeze users to enjoy.


Michael