On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 14:30 +0100, [email protected]
wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 14:17:27 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 13:47 +0100, [email protected]
> > wrote:
> > > I'm looking for the reason why syncevolution 1.3 requires libsynthesis
> > > 3.4.0.16.8. I'm not shure what to look for. Could you point me to
> > > specific commits in syncevolution? The dependency change in
> > > configure.ac came in with a commit that also added a lot of stuff to
> > > the NEWS file.
> > 
> > In that commit I was just cleaning up for the release. The actual
> > changes were there before.
> > 
> > Have a look at the commit messages in libsynthesis where I bump the
> > version. That together with the libsynthesis patches gives an idea why
> > the new version is needed for SyncEvolution:
> > 
> > $ git log 
> > libsynthesis_3.4.0.16+syncevolution-1-2-99-1..libsynthesis_3.4.0.16+syncevolution-1-3-1
> > commit 99159e0991664f8c8319e634598ea6c9bd73fcc2
> > Author: Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Mon Sep 10 09:15:20 2012 +0200
> > 
> >     autotools: bumped minor version
> >     
> >     Bumped minor version so that SyncEvolution can ensure that the version
> >     it is compiled against really fixes the VJOURNAL<->plain text
> >     conversion problem.                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > 
> > A fix required for 1.3, which introduces the VJOURNAL<->plain feature
> > (part of WebDAV: support tasks and memos (BMC #24893)).
> > 
> > commit 0a4a64f976a0f1812c9011efe7d832e381889e97
> > Author: Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>
> > Date:   Thu Aug 16 18:59:22 2012 +0200
> > 
> >     engine: allow text->VJOURNAL conversion
> >     
> >     SyncEvolution uses the Synthesis engine to convert a plain text memo
> >     to iCalendar 2.0 in the local storage. ...
> > 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed that. I was merely interested in specific _syncevolution_
> commits that require this.  I could not find any relevant syncevolution
> commits in the timeframe of the above commit.
> 
> Background: I'm preparing a new upload for Debian that is based on
> 1.2.99.1 and fixes for important bugs.  I decided to not package 1.3.x
> for Debian Wheezy, as the freeze policy is too strict meanwhile.

It's the memo support in WebDAV which uses the VJOURNAL<->plain
conversion. Search for VJOURNAL and/or "text" in the SyncEvolution
commit messages.

For example:

commit 7ce9b7ff258565a2ecab8e344d86ef9497ba57ce
Author: Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jun 18 16:04:51 2012 +0200

    WebDAV: improved VJOURNAL -> plain/text conversion
    
    When a memo in VJOURNAL format from the CalDAV backend gets converted
    to plain text *and* the description starts with summary plus newline,
    then only the description is used in the plain text version, to avoid
    duplicating the summary.
    
    Such entries are produced by SyncEvolution when importing plain text
    into EDS. The conversion in the CalDAV backend uses a slightly
    different logic and strips the first line from the incoming text
    instead of just copying it.
    
    The main reason for this change is that the new mechanism (based
    libsynthesis text profile) makes it easier to implement the conversion
    that way.

I can't give you a list of commits which need to be back-ported. That
would be akin to maintaining a stable branch based on 1.2.99.1. I don't
have the time for that. I also doubt that the result will be really
better than 1.3.2. This kind of back-porting comes with its own risks.
Basically you are releasing a version which has not seen any kind of
testing outside of Debian. Good luck ;-}

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although
I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way
represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
on behalf of Intel on this matter.


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