[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] zarafa-7.2.1 RC1 released

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 10:38:23AM +0100, Mark Dufour wrote:
> hi guido,
> 
> > > about the daemonization issue: I guess we could move some or all of
> > > the checks that currently occur _after_ daemonization to before it, so
> > > we get an error code if it doesn't reach the main loop.. I've put this
> > > into our internal issue tracker in any case, to see if someone else
> > > might pick it up. but can't we somehow just ignore this and switch to
> > > systemd, which should work fine for debian 8 and up..?
> > 
> > As said we're still supproting sysv but I think we're o.k. for experimantal.
> 
> not sure if I mentioned this, but we patched this for 7.2.2. I can supply the patch if you'd like to include it at this point.
> 
> btw, we finally released 7.2.1-final this weekend (had some windows client problems for a while..). we hope to have a much faster cycle for 7.2.2, which would include this patch, and hope to have a beta out within the next few weeks.

Are there significant changes over the currently packaged RCs when not
using Outlook?

Anyways that's a good point to update the uscan filter to filter out the
php stuff (I removed it directly from the upstream branch). Any takers?

> 
> > > I personally would go for 1) and just keep it this way. because
> > > cleaning this up is a lot of work, and would benefit just about
> > > nobody, now or in the future. of course we can always (partially)
> > > revisit it at some point when there is an actual need for using any of
> > > this separately..
> > 
> > Went down that road and pushed it. I think we're mostly set. It'd be
> > nice if somebody would check the packages before I do an upload.
> 
> that's awesome, thanks for your continued effort! :) I will try to check the results today or tomorrow.

FWIW the current version is currently waiting in NEW:

    https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/zarafa_7.2.1~RC51272+dfsg1-1.html

Once this is through we can finally use the Debian Bug tracker to track
open issues.

Cheers,
 -- Guido