From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 22458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22458: Collision between khal and vdirsyncer "bin/vdirsyncer"
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 17:48:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160503214826.GA14028@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737pykhyy.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:24:37PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> >
> >> The packages khal and vdirsyncer are meant to be used together. Khal is
> >> a console calendar program and vdirsyncer synchronizes CalDAV data from
> >> a remote server to the local filesystem so that khal can use it.
> >
> > Then why do they both provide the same file? :-)
> >
> >> For some reason, the khal package is creating an
> >> "EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT" (as "bin/.vdirsyncer-real") that wraps the
> >> propagated vdirsyncer executable. This means that both the khal and
> >> vdirsyncer packages contain the path "bin/vdirsyncer", which is
> >> annoying. Thankfully, they both end up executing the real vdirsyncer.
> >
> > I’m not sure I follow. Does upstream khal explicitly intend to install
> > its own bin/vdirsyncer?
>
> Ping? :-)
Since I filed the bug, I might have learned enough to debug it. I'll
take a look in the next day or so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-03 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-24 23:24 bug#22458: Collision between khal and vdirsyncer "bin/vdirsyncer" Leo Famulari
2016-02-03 21:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-03 20:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-03 21:48 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-12-02 19:20 ` Leo Famulari
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