Bug#866795: gnome-contacts: No CardDAV support?

[Michael Biebl]

Am 01.07.2017 um 20:58 schrieb Conrad J.C. Hughes (for Debian package
stuff):
> Package: gnome-contacts
> Version: 3.22.1-1+b2
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> [I suspect this is closely related to my encountering a similar problem wrt
> CalDAV calendars, submitted as bug #866794 versus gnome-calendar; please mark
> as duplicate/move to gnome-online-accounts if that's where this should really
> reside]
> 
> I've just upgraded from jessie to stretch, and now cannot find a means of
> adding my CardDAV server as a source of contacts: there's a huge list of
> options, but nothing that seems to support CardDAV, which I used successfully
> on jessie.

How exactly did you do that in jessie?

> Currently the only way to add an address book seems to be to add an account,
> but the list of account types doesn't seem to include anything that would
> permit use of a CardDAV URL.  I can't see any mention of DAV in the release
> notes either for this or for stretch itself.
> 
> Any suggestions please?

Afaik, you couldn't directly add CardDAV URLs in jessie either.

What you can use is gnome-online-accounts, same as in jessie.
I used that to setup a ownCloud/Nextclound account, which I use to host
my CalDAV/CardDAV data.

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