[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] preparations for kopanocore 8.3.x (or 8.4.x)

[Mark Dufour]

hi carsten,

> now that we have a recent enough gsoap available in unstable I started
> to work on the backlog of kopanocore 8.3.x for unstable.

very cool! :-)

> > -there's a new 'kopano-admin' tool I wrote, 'kopano-cli', which can
> >  probably just go into kopano-utils
> The former is now living in kopano-utils, kopano-cli will come with 8.4
> I guess.

yep, my previous comparison was against 8.4 so nothing to do here.

> Booth tools I placed into kopano-utils now. I adjusted debian/copyright
> (not only) due the addition of lru_cache.py. Maybe the mentioned
> librosie needs more clarification, I haven't done anything about that
> yet. Mark, can you pint to the respective source files?

I checked, and apparently we wrote this ourselves. the code is in /librosie
and gets linked in when libtidy-something is installed (HAVE_TIDY). what it
does is it cleans and filters HTML mails so they are smaller and don't
contain potentially dangerous stuff.. not sure why we don't forcibly try
to use this, but I guess for debian we can always include it..?

> The changes are much more than just 4-5 patches, I pushed my WIP to my
> GitHub tree of kopanocore. Some more review appreciated. All changes
> above the latest uploaded version 8.1.0-3 are changes we need to talk about.
> 
> https://github.com/tijuca/Giraffe/commits/debian/sid

I will go through them later in the week, and let you know. anyone else,
feel free of course to (also) have a look.

> Version 8.4.x ?
> ===============
> I've seen Jan has published a version 8.4.90 instead of a 8.4.0. I don't
> know why this version bumping has happen, I suspect where will be a
> version 5.0 soon before the next Kopano Conference? Mark?

it's just a change in naming scheme. we just froze the 8.4 branch, and there
should be a first beta in the coming weeks. there _might_ be an RC1 release
for the conference, but I wouldn't count on it.. :-)

> Further working?
> ================
> I think it's probably reasonable to work on the imported version 8.3.2
> and prepare a upload to experimental to also get some possible feedback
> early. But I also not against importing 8.4.90 if we get some more
> enlightening about more needed changes we need to address by this

I don't see a very compelling reason to go for 8.4 at this point, so I 
personally would just continue to work on 8.3.2.. :P note that there should
be a very minor 8.3.3 out within a few days.

part of why I think 8.3.x is a good choice, is that 8.4 has taken quite some
time, and will take more, so we have all these point releases for 8.3..

> version. We should focus first on kopanocore to get this source package
> ready to get further with kopano-webapp later. And all hopefully while
> the Debian DebCamp and Conference in the next weeks.

thanks for all your efforts so far in any case again!

cheers,
mark.