GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 366250
Source tarball contains files that are not DFSG compatible
Last modified: 2013-07-23 14:30:31 UTC
docs/ietf/*.txt in the tarball are not compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. As a consequence, the pristine sources cannot be used as a basis for the evolution-exchange package in Debian. The documents in docs/ietf are outdated and can easily be found online. I recommend removing the docs/ietf directory alltogether, maybe leaving a note in docs/ietf with online references to the documents.
Created attachment 87974 [details] [review] Removes docs/ietf directory Please consider this patch for inclusion as soon as possible.
I haven't heard back from Varadhan on this. On the worst, can you make a patch to just not pack it part of tar ball but leave it around the svn? Im fine for that definitely and I can move ahead meanwhile.
poke :) could anyone look at this removal one day? I don't see any reason for leaving them around in svn either, as Øystein mentioned they are both outdated and available elsewhere :)
Created attachment 110377 [details] [review] Patch to remove nonfree documents from tarball, but leave in svn
I've created a new patch that leaves the documents in svn. Please apply as soon as possible - this patch has been long awaited by Debian.
Commit it. I dont want to delay more than this
Patch committed to SVN trunk as r1664 http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/evolution-exchange?view=revision&revision=1664 CC'ing the exchange folks who need to take a decision if we need the docs to remain in SVN.
@ abharath, any update on this bug ?
The "evolution-exchange" package only supports Exchange 2000 and 2003 servers. Newer versions such as Exchange 2007 and 2010 are not supported by "evolution-exchange". It is required to use the package "evolution-ews" (or to some extend "evolution-mapi") for newer version fo Exchange servers. If the problem/request described in this report still happens with a recent version of "evolution-ews" or "evolution-mapi", please add a comment to this report (and update the "product" setting accordingly if possible). There are currently no plans to continue the development of the package "evolution-exchange", so this report will soon be closed as WONTFIX. Thanks for your understanding and sorry that the reported problem was not solved in time in the package "evolution-exchange".
evolution-exchange only supports the older Microsoft Exchange server versions 2000 and 2003. The last stable release of evolution-exchange was 3.4.4 which took place a year ago. evolution-exchange is now deprecated and not under active development anymore. It is unlikely that there will be any further active development. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping. Please feel free to reopen this bug report in the future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again. Also feel free to reopen this ticket and change the "Product" field accordingly if the reported issue still happens with a recent version (newer than version 3.6) of one of those Exchange backends that are still supported. Please see https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.8/exchange-connectors-overview.html for more information on available backends.