Bug 68739

Summary:	Gnome-pim removed from 7.3 and limbo
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	W. Michael Petullo <redhat>
Component:	gnome-pim	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	limbo	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description W. Michael Petullo 2002-07-13 06:52:46 UTC

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Description of problem:
The release notes of Red Hat Linux 7.3 note that the gnome-pim package has been
removed.  I think that this is unfortunate because gnomecal and gnomecard are
nice, lightweight alternatives to evolution.  I am a fan of both and would like
to request that they be included in future Red Hat Linux versions.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Try to install the gnome-pim package.
	

Actual Results:  Gnome-pim rpm is not included in Red Hat Linux 7.3+.

Expected Results:  Well, I guess gnome-pim should have been installed.

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Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-07-13 14:19:24 UTC

It's not maintained upstream. Until someone picks it up and actively maintains
it, not much we can do - it's guaranteed to bitrot eventually. There were
already quite a few unresolved bugs and issues a year ago when gnome-pim was
dropped.
It'll only be worse now.

We try to avoid shipping software that isn't maintained since the bugs don't get
fixed, and it doesn't have any future.

Comment 2 W. Michael Petullo 2002-07-20 21:53:20 UTC

A gentleman named Sebastian Rittau seems to be porting gnome-pim to GNOME2.  He
work is available at http://me.in-berlin.de/~jroger/gnome-pim.