tags 809017 + fixed pending
thanks

Hello Christoph,

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 05:46:24AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Per default, all folks installing iceowl-extension would get
> calendar-google-provider as well.
> That doesn't seem to be appropriate.
> 
> First, it's a proprietary protocol and a FLOSS distribution
> shouldn't try to spread such, when real standards (CalDav)
> are available.
> Second, many people may not even have a Google account or
> may not want to use their Google calendar.
> 
> Suggesting it seems to be fully enough,... and in the spirit
> of Debian being based in the FLOSS world and not in the proprietary
> world, it should then also suggest plugins that allow
> the use of CalDav.

we agree on your argumentation. Guido has prepared a patch to remove the
Recommends on calendar-google-provider and use Suggests instead. I
applied that patch and it will be part of the next release in unstable.

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/icedove.git/commit/?id=195730df92f235d5a3182694a64fc0ee7cc40e72

Regards
Carsten

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