On 01/06/13 19:14, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 05:54:42PM +1000, Geoff D'Arcy wrote:
>> On 01/06/13 17:42, Craig Sanders wrote:
>>> iceowl has finally stopped working in debian sid (mozilla sunbird
>>> was discontinued upstream a long time ago).
>>
>> Iceowl still works for me.  I run debian testing with some packages
>> cherry picked out of sid and sometimes experimental.  At the moment I
>> have
>>
>> icedove 17.0.5-2
>> iceowl 1.9-3
>> iceowl-extension 17.0.5-2
>> calendar-google-provider 17.0.5-2
>
> have you restarted iceowl since you upgraded to these versions?

Yes, many times.  When I did initially install it took a bit of fiddling 
to get all the needed packages and versions so everything worked.  At 
the time I was pulling the packages from experimental and sid.
>
>
> i've got all those (and calendar-timezones 17.0.5-2 too).

Yep, I should have included that, it is needed.

>
> it's been dropped for ages. the upstream mozilla sunbird project is
> dead, and debian seems ambivalent about it.
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668039
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665653
>
> OTOH, the iceowl package maintainer seems happy enough to keep it as an
> experimental and unstable only package (i.e. won't be in testing or in
> the next stable and probably not any future stable release)

Ouch, not what I wanted to hear.  I'll have to keep and eye open for a 
replacement.

Geoff



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