On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 12:16 -0700, Scott Anderson wrote:
> --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 05:25 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 22:03 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 01:37 +0200, guenther wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 08:15 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:30 -0700, Scott Anderson wrote:
> > > > [snip]
> > > > > > I posted this a while ago on this list.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > You can get mail-notification to work with a simple patch if you're
> > > > > > happy to compile it from source. I have it working with 2.6 quite
> > > > > > nicely.
> > > > >
> > > > > Updating and fixing this is the distros duty, IMHO.
> > > >
> > > > Why?
> > >
> > > Because that's what distros do -- providing a working set of apps. :)
> > >
> > > The original post mentioned mail-notification working with Evo 2.4,
> > > which changed when upgrading Evo to 2.6. Caring about such issues is one
> > > of the core duties of a distro. If they are going to update any app or
> > > library, they absolutely need to make sure that any app that depends on
> > > it still works afterwards.
> > >
> > > (In this special case though we should not forget that Evo 2.6 is in
> > > Debian testing/unstable only. Whoever opts to use a non-stable branch
> > > must expect possible breakage anytime.)
> >
> > Hmmm. I was under the impression that mail-notification broke
> > upstream (Debian terminology, in this case, for you all).
Granted, yes -- this is an upstream bug. :)
On the other hand however, this one is easy to fix, and IIRC building
mail-notification for 2.4 already required such a fix. When Evo is being
updated, an updated m-n package should be provided as well. Hence the
"IMHO" in my previous comment.
> My understanding is similar, but not certain. I understood that
> mail-notification was using a
> hack that required it to use low-level evolution function calls instead of
> the dbus-notification
> layer. And that was because the dbus-notification layer either did not exist
> or was not working.
> Now that it *is* working, is mail-notification going to use the
> dbus-notification layer (which
> would solve the need for endless version-specific patches)?
>
> But that is not a question really for this list, but to the mail-notification
> developers, to whom
> I have already asked the same question.
True. :)
> Does anyone have any other program that does the same function? That's
> really what I want to know
> from this list.
Integrated with Evo or listening to the Evo dbus messages? Sorry, not
that I am aware of. I'd usually just recommend m-n...
Maybe you can convince your packager to rebuild m-n.
...guenther
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