Hi Jerome,
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 17:29 +0200, Jerome Warnier wrote:
> Please package newer versions. As of today, the latest is r1212, while
> version in unstable is r379.
There's a bit of a dilemma here, sadly.
The version that went into Debian was basically a working version much
like the proprietary Netmail, although it had numerous bugs. But, the
idea was that it was just an open-sourced product that could then be
quickly stabilised, and that did happen.
You'll remember that there was a lot of noise about Novell a while ago,
and then the Hula team re-evaluated their development roadmap which led
to them being a bit more ambitious about what they wanted to do. So,
Hula became a lot more unstable while they did heavy development.
Now, I have no doubt that Hula will be ready before etch, but I'm also
not sure currently that a more up-to-date package is better than what's
in unstable right now.
I've packaged r1319 on my website, and there are a fair few problems
with it. Also, the main Hula work is currently being done on a different
branch - the "store" branch. The fruit of that work should start to be
apparent quite soon.
So, there are a couple of things to do before we can update Hula:
* there is a small licensing matter (Hula is now GPL-only but
links to openssl. This isn't a practical problem, but it needs a
formal statement from Novell, or a patch to use gnutls)
* decide whether or not to bother trying to release a fixed
version of Hula which has the current (minor) issues preventing
it being useful fixed, or whether to wait (a small while) for
the storage branch to be ready. I'm planning on trying this this
weekend.
Hula also has some new agents (e.g., the caldav agent that is based on
mono), but I'm reasonably confident those aren't ready for Debian yet,
so can be ignored for now.
I'm thinking currently that it would be better to wait for the store
branch to settle out. It probably won't be too long, but it might be
better that this new version then goes into experimental, rather than
unstable.
I would be interested in your thoughts.
Cheers,
Alex.
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