[Kde-pim] Libical v0.32 Requirement Coming

[Patrick Ohly]

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 17:11 -0400, Allen Winter wrote:
> Libical v.032, an implementation of basic iCAL protocols was released today.
> 
> For years, the kdepim module has relied upon its own, very old forked version
> of the libical, but now we want to start using the official version again.

This is the right move. Now the Evolution developers should do the same.
I'll suggest it.

I didn't know the SF.net project was planning a release. I wish I had
heard about it earlier, because I recently discovered that the Evolution
fork of libical has (IMHO) a serious bug, and the SF.net libical has
inherited that problem when they merged the code earlier.

The main effect is that in large parts of the world (Western Europe,
Australia, South America, Asia) the transition from summer saving time
to winter time will not be calculated correctly.

Here's the original report and the one I just created on SF.net:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548268
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2096602&group_id=16077&atid=116077

Hopefully a libical-0.32.1 can be released quickly. As I said on the
SF.net bug report, please don't shoot the messenger :-/

> So, beginning on 1 Oct kdepimlibs trunk will require libical v0.32.
> Thus, large parts of KDE 4.2 will not build without libical 0.32.
> 
> To make life easier for developers, I ask the distros to make
> this new libical version available, where possible, and as soon
> as possible.

Seems like the distros will be busy with updates, as Evolution also
needs to be patched/recompiled.

-- 
Bye, Patrick Ohly
--  
Patrick.Ohly at gmx.de
http://www.estamos.de/

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