[needs-packaging] Calendar Server

[Jo-Erlend Schinstad]

Apple's iCal Server enables users to share calendars, which is very useful for businesses. It is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. http://wiki.ubuntu.com/CalendarServer explains how to install it from their subversion repository, but we should have a package for it, and preferably a task in the server install.

[Onno Benschop (onno-itmaze)]

As the co-author of the howto, I second this request.

[Felipe Venegas (fvenegas)]

Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. [WWW] http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use.

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

Having bug for needs-packaging is the way we track software we want to include in Ubuntu. This bug is perfectly valid.

[William Lynch (wlynch)]

Debian has packaged this in experimental, but only for python2.4 (and I'm not sure why).

http://packages.debian.org/calendarserver

[0x3333 (terciofilho-gmail)]

I vote to create this package. It's really important in a business environment.

I'm going to create the startup scripts, will post for the authors of the howto.

[LukeBrowell (luke-browell)]

This Needs Packaging Pronto. If your reading and can, please do.

[Lionel Porcheron (lionel.porcheron)]

calendarser is now in intrepid:
$ rmadison calendarserver
calendarserver | 1.2.dfsg-1 | intrepid/universe | source, all

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

Rebuilding sids packages on both gutsy and hardy works perfectly (i've done it).
filing a backports request would probably work too, now its in ubuntu unstable.

[Dave Gomboc (davegomboc)]

This package appears to exist in a broken form in Karmic, but is not installable because of a version more than 1.5 years old (version 1.2) that is currently bundled depends upon the python-xml package that was dropped after the Jaunty release:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/calendarserver/+bug/403349

There is another bug report requesting an upgrade from the ancient version bundled to the current release, 2.3. That would avoid the dependency upon python-xml:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/calendarserver/+bug/426778

There is a package that exists, so that's an argument for closing out this bug, but because the package is more or less useless, it might be better to keep it open.