[Calendarserver-discuss] Free Software calendaring and groupware (in and beyond Debian)

[Paul Boddie]

On Friday 8. April 2016 20.48.29 Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> 
> For starters, attached is a danish localization.  I suggest you to
> recode your norwegian locale file to UTF-8, as that is easier to handle.

Yes, I happen to still be using ISO-8859-15 - what happened to all those 
migration tools? - but UTF-8 is used for everything else in imip-agent, so it 
makes a lot of sense to fix this.

> Also, consider adding comments on entries that are seemingly used in
> email output and therefore need newlines sprinked into it (or better:
> write/user a UTF-8 supportive routine to auto-break long strings into
> lines of suitable length).

I'll take a look at this.

> Now looking into packaging for Debian...

I've tried to keep things fairly obvious here, but there were various policy-
related things that I would have looked up if it weren't so inconvenient to do 
so. I imagine that you know Debian policies a lot better than I do, so things 
like...

  * where to put the data
  * where the program files should go
  * how to best handle the configuration files
  * what to do with my own libraries that I've bundled...
  * ...but which aren't used by anything else...
  * ...but which could potentially be used by other things ;-)

...are probably things you can immediately judge, whereas it would take me 
hours of searching tutorials, guides, mailing list archives and probably 
reading between the lines, too.

(On the topic of package configuration, I did try and make the Kolab packaging 
work with debconf, which isn't something I would really like to do again in 
the near future, but maybe debconf interaction isn't really necessary for 
something as simple as this work.)

> I am no big fan of SQL, so no hurry for my part to get that working :-P

It's more of a "nice to have" thing, for those who do like SQL. ;-)

Thanks once again for taking a look and for the translations. :-)

Paul