Bug#394534: pilot-link and kpilot
Hi Ludovic,
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:44:11PM +0100, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
> > It seems kpilot has already been ported to work with new pilot-link 0.12,
> > but it has two problems.
> >
> > First, kpilot is being maintained outside the KDE SVN, so the code we're
> > shipping in kdepim is not longer maintained. It is not clear whether
> > they're going back to maintain it inside the KDE SVN. The current code is
> > available at http://cvs.codeyard.net/kpilot/
>
> That is bad news. Any plan to package this new version instead?
>
It should be packaged independently of kdepim and I do not know if somebody
of the Qt/KDE team is interested. Anyway, if it is packaged independently
i do not think it will be ready before the freeze, specially since it
will be a SVN version.
> I propose to NOT use the pilot-link-0.12 provided by KPilot. And file
> bugs against pilot-link if bugs must be corrected.
Yes, i agree on this.
>
> > I do not understand why care was not taken to avoid breaking the
> > reverse dependencies when the transition from pilot-link was made.
>
> This was planned. See [1]. I could not test every package using
> libpisock. kpilot recompiled correctly so I assumed the code to use
> pilot-link 0.12 was in place. This is not the case and some parts of
> kpilot are now non working.
>
Ok, not your fault :)
> We clearly have a problem with kpilot upstream(s):
> - The new version is no more maintained as part of kdepim (and Debian is
> packaging kpilot as part of KDE kdepim). Trying to solve the kiplot
> provided by kdepim looks like a waste of time.
> - I can't find an stable release of the new version. Only the current
> svn version is available. I don't think it is a good idea to provide
> in etch an work-in-progress version of kpilot.
>
> I don't know what is the plan of the debian-qt-kde maintainers. I do not
> use KDE or kpilot so I can't really test it.
>
We're waiting for a possible patch to fix this from the kpilot upstream
(we already asked them about this). But if we do not find some way to fix
kpilot to work with pilot-link 0.12 in a week or so, we will have remove
kpilot from kdepim.
Ana
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