Bug#775180: analysis
On 03/02/15 20:55, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 03/02/15 19:55, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> On 03/02/15 19:42, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>> On 03/02/15 at 18:33 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>>> On 03/02/15 09:37, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>>>> On 03/02/15 at 09:22 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/02/15 08:55, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 31/01/15 at 11:09 +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 30/01/15 16:20, Christophe Siraut wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If my proposed solution seems reasonable I'll go ahead and code it
>>>>>>>>>> (...)
>>>>>>>>> It seems perfectly reasonable to me. I just want to mention that while
>>>>>>>>> we started refactoring DMD in order to provide RSS, YAML and JSON, we
>>>>>>>>> did not finish isolating the data from the presentation. In consequence
>>>>>>>>> you might end up with HTML code in calendar tasks, please fix or fill
>>>>>>>>> bugs if it happens. (There should be no HTML in dmd-data.rb nor in
>>>>>>>>> dmd.cgi; data should be parsed in dmd-data.rb only; dmd.cgi should be a
>>>>>>>>> lot simpler)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I've done the following:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - initial implementation using the feeditems array
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - requested to join collab-qa on alioth so I can push this, otherwise
>>>>>>>> somebody else can apply it
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> - sent an RT request (#5713) to DSA to install the vpim package on ullmann
>>>>>>> I've reverted the change as it broke bugs.cgi (probably due to the
>>>>>>> missing dep).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please revert the revert once the change is ready to be deployed.
>>>>>> Is there a DSA contact who looks after ullmann.d.o? Or do you have sudo
>>>>>> access? I notice nobody replied to the DSA ticket to apt-get install vpim.
>>>>> No, a ticket is the correct way to make progress here
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks Lucas, Peter installed the package and I re-applied the commit in
>>>> master, what is the next step to release the change and verify it is
>>>> working in production?
>>> Crap. vpim is broken in wheezy, it doesn't work with ruby 1.9.x, because
>>> it only installs files in /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/
>> I saw the vpim package was almost the same version in jessie and
>> wheezy. I actually tested on jessie though
>>
>>> How much do you depend on this particular implementation of icalendar
>>> support in Ruby? You could backport a fixed package and have DSA
>>> install it...
>> This is the first project where I've tried using Ruby for something and
>> this was the first dependency that I found that appeared to be suitable
>> as it was in wheezy. If there is another dependency that is easier to
>> use I don't mind.
>>
>> Antonio did an NMU for jessie[1] and I think it is intended to fix the
>> issue you described so I could just upload that to wheezy-backports, is
>> that what you had in mind?
> I uploaded it to wheezy-backports, it is now waiting in NEW
It has been rejected from wheezy-backports, I've sent a query to the
release team about uploading vpim to wheezy-updates instead:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777047
>
>> I made some fixes upstream[2] but I don't know how keen people would be
>> to let that through to jessie and backports while we are in the freeze
>>
>> Upstream also indicated he would welcome github pull requests, possibly
>> making the package easier to support
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> 1.
>> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/v/vpim/unstable_changelog
>>
>> 2. https://github.com/sam-github/vpim/commits/master
>>
>>
>>
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