kopete and kdepimlibs in apps 15.08

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:41:04 AM CEST Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 18, 2015 9:53:44 AM CEST Harald Sitter wrote:
> > Hellos,
> > 
> > So, I just noticed that kopete has:
> > > CMakeLists.txt:find_package(KdepimLibs REQUIRED)
> > 
> > we do however not have a kdepimlibs (qt4) in Applications 15.08 so
> > that requirement cannot really be met anymore.
> > 
> > What's worse: kdepimlibs (qt4) in fact has file overlap with
> > kdepimlibs (qt5); namely at least:
> > - usr/share/mime/packages/x-vnd.akonadi.socialfeeditem.xml
> > - usr/share/mime/packages/kdepimlibs-mime.xml
> > so they are not co-installable without tweaking by every distro first.
> 
> kdepimlibs-mime.xml could be renamed to x-vnd.kde.contactgroup.xml in KF5,
> because that's what it contains. For the socialutil we could have x-
> vnd.akonadi5.socialfeeditem.xml in KF5 version... I'll fix that ASAP.

Fixed in Applications/15.08 branch of kdepimlibs. Could we pretty please get a 
respin of kdepimlibs tarball?

> However that's not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that you can
> only compile kdepimlibs4 against Akonadi <= 1.13, which is not
> co-installable with the version of Akonadi required by kdepimlibs5. The one
> thing that kdepimlibs4 needs from Akonadi is libakonadiprotocolinternals.so
> (that's what kdepimlibs4 link against). If Kopete does not need to actually
> access KDE PIM data stored in Akonadi, then the Akonadi(qt4) server or any
> other binary are not needed. We can publish some sort of "manual" for
> distributions how to deal with this, but I'm afraid distros will have to
> figure out the packaging magic to handle that on their own.
> 
> 
> Dan
> 
> > Now looking at the source kdepimlibs is used for two things in kopete:
> > 1) kpimidentities is used in the bonjour protocol as a fallback to
> > kuser to obtain the users's name and email address for account default
> > values (this is required, although I am not sure it should be)
> > 2) gpgmepp is used by the crypto plugin for crypto things (this is
> > optional, although I am not sure it should be :P)
> > 
> > Given that we have no kde4pimlibs source what is the intended solution
> > to this? Cripple kopete and make bonjour optional using a patch, if so
> > why not do that in the repo directly? Or perhaps have every distro
> > figure out which parts of the old kdepimlibs are now defunct with
> > akonadi moved to kf5 and package the rest for compat?
> > 
> > (CC'd Pali and Dan; not sure they are subbed)
> > 
> > HS

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