Bug 474070

Summary:	Request to downgrade OpenSync to 0.22 for F9/10/rawhide
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Christopher D. Stover <quantumburnz>
Component:	libopensync	Assignee:	Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	andreas.bierfert, dallan, lciani
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Description Christopher D. Stover 2008-12-01 23:32:09 UTC

I packaged barry, a desktop toolset for managing your BlackBerry device, which uses OpenSync.  However, it's not compatible with the newer version of OpenSync so F9/10 users are unable to sync their Blackberries.

The OpenSync website states the following: 0.3x releases are not recommended for end users or distribution packaging.  I've also brought this issue upstream and I've included the response I received below.

I'm not sure what other packages are using OpenSync but I propose we downgrade to 0.22, if possible, until a stable higher version is released.  Your thoughts on this would be appreciated.  Thank you.

>> Are there any plans to implement a newer version of libopensync since
>> FC doesn't support 0.22?
>
> opensync 0.3 is a very bad idea to include in a distribution, because it
> doesn't work. The opensync maintainers expressly say it should not be
> included in distributions, right on the opensync home page. If you want
> to have any hope of having synchronization of just about anything
> actually *work*, you should convince the FC guys to downgrade to
> opensync 0.22 until 0.3 / 0.4 is actually usable.
>
> We had the same issue on Mandriva. Someone blindly bumped opensync from
> 0.22 to 0.3 without bothering to test whether it was actually at all
> usable. I came along, tried to actually get synchronization to work, and
> found it was completely impossible, so I had to spend several days
> downgrading all the packages. Then thing started to work.

Comment 1 l ciani 2009-01-31 23:56:06 UTC

May I just add that since Fedora 10/opensync0.3, opensync does not sync KDEPIM contacts/calendar with mobile phones.

If going back to opensync0.2 fixes that, than I would welcome the downgrade until opensync reaches a stage (possibly 0.4) where its developers say that it's OK to be packaged in a distribution.

Comment 2 Christopher D. Stover 2009-03-02 18:42:48 UTC

Another possibility -- Can we package libopensync-0.4x?  They have a development version out that the barry mailing list is moving to.

Comment 3 Andreas Bierfert 2009-03-03 09:16:53 UTC

We will be going for 0.22 downgrade till 0.4x is really ready. Should happen in the next days.

Comment 4 Dave Allan 2009-03-12 19:22:42 UTC

Sounds good--doesn't look like anybody could really be using 0.3, so the new APIs in 0.4x will break all the consumers until they update.