Hi Florian, On 01/14/2018 12:33 AM, Florian Schlichting wrote: > Hi Martin, > >> the upgrade to 1.1.5-1~bpo8+1 introduced a regression in the ldap driver code >> that prevents new account registrations from LDAP. >> >> Upstream has taken care of that issue 10 months ago: >> Issue: https://gitlab.com/davical-project/davical/issues/108 >> Fix: >> https://gitlab.com/davical-project/davical/commit/e0b8ecada5630788d312ba7b53eb75290e299592 >> >> Please backport the fix. Thank your for maintaining this package. > > would uploading the current version of davical (1.1.7) to > jessie-backports-sloppy be a solution for you?
That would be just fine, I can work with that. > > Alternatively, there's davical-current at > https://people.debian.org/~fsfs/davical-current/setup.sh where I should > upload 1.1.7 shortly. I think the backports-sloppy upload is what I'd prefer. > > I have little experience updating packages in stable releases of Debian, > or fixing things in -backports that haven't been fixed in the > corresponding "next release". From my point of view, all of 1.1.3 -> > 1.1.7 are bugfix releases, although we haven't limited ourselves to > strictly fixing important bugs only, so these may be difficult for a > stable release manager to accept (and indeed there's no guarantee that > we didn't introduce any regression, as you have found out). I'm afraid > we lack the bandwith to maintain more than the one "current" version of > davical... Yes, unfortunately packaging for Debian is often a complicated thing, so thanks for taking care of this at all. > > So what's the way forward? I hope I answered that above. > > Florian > (with my DAViCal hat on) > Best regards, Martin
