[Kde-pim] Libical v0.32 Requirement Coming

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 06 September 2008 04:51:20 Patrick Ohly wrote:
> 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.
> 
I contacted the freeassociation developers about this.
We are discussing if there should be a 0.32.1 release
to fix this issue and a couple other build issues that
surfaced the past couple days.

Will keep you informed.
-Allen

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