jpilot-syncmal trashes Avantgo settings after Edgy update

I can confirm this -- same buggy behavior on my Edgy/6.06 system that has been upgraded continuously via the previous two release.

Advice on how to fix this, or how to workaround it, would be welcome.

Dirk

I have the same problem:

Ubuntu Edgy Eft
jpilot 0.99.9-2
jpilot-syncmal 0.72.2-1

Does anybody now how to fix this?

I've had an email from Jason Day:

"I believe I've got this fixed now. I can't send you a binary, but if you are comfortable building packages from source here is where you can download a preview:

http://jasonday.home.att.net/code/syncmal/jpilot-syncmal-0.73pre.tar.gz

"You will need to have the development packages installed for gtk and pilot-link (and maybe libpisock) to build it. If you get it working, please let me know.

"I'll get this cleaned up and released on my site soon, but I don't know how long it will take to make it into ubuntu's package repository."

Since reporting this bug I've bought a Palm TX which uses a WiFi link to synch with Avantgo, so I can't test whether this fix works. If someone could test it and report back here, I can pass the message on to Jason.

Thanks - John

Thank you very much. It works perfect on Ubuntu Edgy Eft. :-)

On 4 December 2006 at 08:26, John McCreesh wrote:
| I've had an email from Jason Day:
|
| "I believe I've got this fixed now. I can't send you a binary, but if
| you are comfortable building packages from source here is where you can
| download a preview:
|
| http://jasonday.home.att.net/code/syncmal/jpilot-syncmal-0.73pre.tar.gz
|
| "You will need to have the development packages installed for gtk and
| pilot-link (and maybe libpisock) to build it. If you get it working,
| please let me know.
|
| "I'll get this cleaned up and released on my site soon, but I don't know
| how long it will take to make it into ubuntu's package repository."
|
| Since reporting this bug I've bought a Palm TX which uses a WiFi link to
| synch with Avantgo, so I can't test whether this fix works. If someone
| could test it and report back here, I can pass the message on to Jason.
|
| Thanks - John

Thanks for the heads-up, and to Jason for the updated.

I just applied the debian/ directory from the current package to these new
sources, rebuilt it and installed the resulting .deb on my Ubuntu machine.
Works like a charm.

Thanks to all, Dirk

--
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
                                                  -- Thomas A. Edison

Thanks for confirming that Jason has solved the problem. I've emailed Ludovic Rousseau and Daniel Holbach to see if they can get Jason's new code into Ubuntu.

John

Any news on getting this code into edgy ubuntu ? Its feb 07 now and syncmal is still trashing my avantgo palm settings.

I tried compiling syncmal 0.8 but hit dependency probs - could not find pilot-link header files, adept does not appear to list the dev files for this package ... I could compile it from source as well but its then getting a bit hairy :)

Cheers
Dave S

Ubuntu Edgy Eft is no longer supported, so a SRU will not be issued for this release. Marking Edgy as Won't Fix.