Hi Gergely The problem is the upstream not supporting the newer version of libmail-imapclient; I completely agree. I've been in contact with the upstream author about this, and he has been looking at converting it to the new version; but has given up atm. The new version is a complete rewrite which at some point makes it a bit problematic. Looking at the code myself also, but couldn't provide that much good, as I don't know perl.
I can see your point, that it is not a preferable solution uploading an old version; but it seems to be the only way to get it into working state again within some degree of reasonable time. Could a solution be to include the patched imapclient as part of the imapsync package instead? Have it reside in the debian directory in the source. This being a temporary solution until upstream hopefully get the imapclient source rewritten for the new version. Thanks for helping out! /Andreas -- Andreas Wenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 11:40 +0100, Riskó Gergely wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > I don't think that uploading an old libmail-imapclient just for > imapsync is a good idea. It's upstream maintenance won't continue. > > And if I see correctly this package isn't in an unworkable state > because of the Debian maintainer ship, but because of an upstream > incompatibility with the new version of an upstream lib. So if you > have spare time, it will be better, if you help out the upstream > author converting the program to the new libmail-imapclient version. > However I'm open-minded about trying out your new upstream patches in > the Debian repo to get feedback from sid/lenny users. > > Of course, I can't stop you in looking for a sponsor to upload > libmail-imapclient-229, and if that happens, I will of course fix the > issue by depending on it, but I do emphasize that I don't think this > is the good way, so I won't be your sponsor. > > Thanks for your kind help and undestanding, > Gergely > > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:14:05 +0100, Andreas Wenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > > Hi Risko > > > > Referring to this bug on imapsync: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458501 > > > > I would very much like to see the imapsync package working for lenny and > > sid again; I've attached a patch for imapsync and a new needed package > > libmail-imapclient-229 . > > > > I would ask you if you are interested in pushing the maintainership for > > the package to me, as I have a general interest in this package anyway? > > > > For this first upload I would then need a sponsor for both imapsync and > > libmail-imapclient-229; should it be possible that you would look into > > sponsoring the two packages then? > > > > /Andreas > > -- > > Andreas Wenning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
