[edgy] SRU: kpilot of calendar events and addressbook fails.

[Frode M. Døving]

Binary package hint: kdepim

Binary package hint: kpilot

Launchpad bug report: https://launchpad.net/bugs/66313
Debian bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/394534
KDE bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/86879

Requesting SRU as this affects many Kubuntu users.
I consider not beeing able to sync your palm device reliably a severe regression if not updated.

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

This is the patch Debian added to their package.

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

debdiff. current edgy -> package with patch from debian.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:14:30AM -0000, Frode M. Døving wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: kdepim
>
> Binary package hint: kpilot
>
> Launchpad bug report: https://launchpad.net/bugs/66313
> Debian bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/394534
> KDE bug report: http://bugs.kde.org/86879
>
> Requesting SRU as this affects many Kubuntu users.
> I consider not beeing able to sync your palm device reliably a severe regression if not updated.

In the future, please use the existing bug report for the SRU (and use
"backport fix to releases to track it") rather than filing a new bug, as
this keeps all of the information in one place. I've updated the
StableReleaseUpdates documentation to suggest this as well.

--
 - mdz

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Fixed in Feisty.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

There is no way that I will approve this patch for a stable release. It looks like half a rewrite of the program, makes intrusive changes to the build system, changes stuff in the packaging that is not related to synchronizing, etc.

Please try to create a minimal patch that is sufficient to fix synchronization. If that is too hard to do, let's not worry about this for edgy.

Thank you!

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

There is no easy fix. Rejecting for Edgy.

[Philip Tuckey (philtuckey)]

Hey Martin and Frode, the facts that this is part of a stable release and that there is no easy fix are somewhat beside the point. We are not talking about a whimsical feature request for a decent package, this thing is plain broken! (Unless working is a feature...) We are talking data loss. It will continue to bother the hell out of users who upgrade to edgy during the remaining more than two-thirds of edgy's life cycle. It would be preferable to pull it from the release than to leave it as is; at least then we would *know* we can't sync. But of course as an edgy user I would prefer it to be fixed.

[Frode M. Døving (frode)]

I would prefer this to be fixed in edgy too.
But if there is no way to get this fix in, i doubt anyone will spend countless hours making an edgy-only fix for this.

As an edgy user you can test the kpilot package from http://ubuntu.lnix.net/edgy/updates/kdepim-proposed/

[Philip Tuckey (philtuckey)]

Le Saturday 10 February 2007, Frode M. Døving a écrit :
> I would prefer this to be fixed in edgy too.
> But if there is no way to get this fix in, i doubt anyone will spend
> countless hours making an edgy-only fix for this.
>
> As an edgy user you can test the kpilot package from
> http://ubuntu.lnix.net/edgy/updates/kdepim-proposed/

Thanks for your reply. I understand that noone would be particularly
interested in finding a simple fix for edgy. I think accepting the big
patch would be the lesser of two wievels. If not, how about pulling the
package from edgy?
I did try the package from ubuntu.lnix.net and it appeared to sync
correctly, so thanks for making that available. Pretty soon after I went
to the edgy KDE 3.5.6 packages, where kpilot also basically works.
Regards
Philip