I have built some Debian packages for Evolution and its dependencies, and am releasing them in the hopes that someone out there will find them useful.
These aren't of nearly the same quality as the Helix GNOME debs. There are some known minor packaging issues, but things appear to work fine. Keep in mind that all the packages involved are in a prerelease state. In particular, the gconf deb runs a program in its postinstall script that requires oaf. This starts oafd, which remains running after the install is finished. Feel free to kill this root-owned oafd after the install is over. I don't know a good way to handle this problem, since root could be running some programs that require oafd to be running. That rules out killing it off in the postinst. I'll look into things to see what can be done. These have been built and tested under Woody, though they should work on Potato as well. As with the Helix GNOME debs, I consider any failure to work on Potato to be a bug. Please file a bug report if you see any problems of that sort. ( http://bugs.helixcode.com/ ) These have been built for the i386 architecture - that's the only machine I have available at the moment. Source packages are provided, though. The appropriate apt line is: deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./ Share and enjoy. Peter
