Package should get removed or renamed

[Michael Banck]

Starting with version 0.3, the sunbird calendar file format changed from .ics to the (sqlite based) .sdb, see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/faq.html#format for further information.

The opensync-plugin-sunbird package does not support the newer format and should thus get removed to avoid user confusion. One possible alternative would be to rename it to opensync-plugin-ics to make clear it can only be used to sync ics files (in the plugin config, you can point it at a file).

A plugin supporting the new thunderbird/lightning (and possibly soon sunbird as well) format is being developped at http://kaarposoft.dk/bluezync/ but is 0.3x based and not in Debian (yet, on my TODO), so this should hopefully be back for hardy+1.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Removed from hardy:

2008-04-11 22:21:33 INFO creating lockfile
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO Removing candidates:
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO libopensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy amd64
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy hppa
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy i386
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy ia64
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy lpia
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy powerpc
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO opensync-plugin-sunbird 0.19-1ubuntu1 in hardy sparc
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO Removed-by: Steve Langasek
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO Comment: incompatible with current sunbird packages; LP: #215981
2008-04-11 22:21:37 INFO 8 packages successfully removed.
Confirm this transaction? [yes, no] yes
2008-04-11 22:21:43 INFO Transaction committed.
2008-04-11 22:21:43 INFO The archive will be updated in the next publishing cycle.

not sync blacklisted, so will auto-sync again for intrepid.

[Davide Capodaglio (davidecapod)]

But now that opensync-plugin-sunbird has been removed, how can I synchronize data with sunbird/lightning? even if the internal calendar format has changed to sdb, it is always possible to use the ics format as "internet calendar" and then specify file:// as its URL.
I think that the old plugin should be reintroduced as opensync-plugin-ics.

[Michael Banck (mbanck)]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:02:02PM -0000, Davide Capodaglio wrote:
> But now that opensync-plugin-sunbird has been removed, how can I
> synchronize data with sunbird/lightning? even if the internal calendar
> format has changed to sdb, it is always possible to use the ics format
> as "internet calendar" and then specify file:// as its URL. I think
> that the old plugin should be reintroduced as opensync-plugin-ics.

That's certainly an option; however I think it is also mostly not
maintained anymore upstream.

Michael