Bug#569668: Is there still interest in davmail for Debian?
On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:17:09 +0200
Antonio Ospite <ao2@ao2.it> wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:11:11 +0200
> Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.rossi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
[...]
> > > I see that your previous work is still available here:
> > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/davmail.git/
> >
> > Yes it is, it may work as is. But I was never able to test it for the
> > reason above.
> >
>
> I can build the package and report issues.
>
I built the package with this command line:
DIST=sid ARCH=amd64 BUILDER=pbuilder gbp buildpackage --git-pbuilder -d
I had to refresh the patches in the master branch.
And create a new debian version:
gbp dch --auto --new-version 4.6.1.2343-0.1 debian/
Depend on libservlet3.0-java instead of libservlet2.4-java which is not
available anymore.
And allow building with java 1.8 adding a patch to build.xml.
And install libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni to actually run davmail and get
the tray icon, should this be a dependency? Or maybe a Recommend since
davamil 4.7 has a -notray option.
But after that the package builds fine and davmail kind of works, I can
access the Exchange server and download messages, but in my MUA I only
get the body of the messages, with no headers (From, To, Date, Subject)
does this mach any of your previous experience with DavMail?
The software does not work as intended yet, and there are still lintian
issues so it's not ready for upload yet, but the packaging itself it's
in a promising state.
Let me know if you intend to import the latest upstream release before
I put more effort into it, of if you want me to already send the couple
of patches I have against the current repository.
[...]
> And If you happened to have some extra time, maybe you could update the
> dependencies packages as well. For instance the Vcs-Browser link in
> the libhtmlcleaner-java package does not work anymore.
>
OK, this is infrastructure problem on Debian's side, the redirects
have some errors. I've reported it, but the alioth devs told me that
they are going to switch to cgit eventually anyways, so updating the
links would be a good thing to do.
Thanks,
Antonio
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