[needs-packaging] mozilla sunbird

So will we see Sunbird on the repositories?

Greetings
Pochu

I attach the .dsc and the .diff.gz files of a .deb made by mlind (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1929664#post1929664)

Regards
Pochu

Hi,

You should ask mlind to upload its package on REVU (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/Packages/REVU), and hopefully it will be uploaded before universe freeze.

Greetings.

QA should mark an WL.

last time I looked, sunbird was not yet released from a stable mozilla branch. This makes it (too) hard to maintain if it comes to security and stability updates. So probably not for feisty.

Alexander its in experimental but we dont merge/sync from experimental but i guess now that we have you as maintainer that could be something we decide on doing. link is :
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=sunbird&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

My wuestion is why do we need another mozilla mail client what does it have thunderbird doesnt have?

Sunbird is the stand alone calendar http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

Package sunbird

    * experimental (mail): Sunbird standalone mail client
      0.2.99+0.3alpha1-3: alpha hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc sparc
if you read the link i gave you would see this part. Yes sunbird from mozilla-site states its a calender but since we take from debian the package sunbird is a standalone mail client.

I think that just means the Debian maintainer tagged it wrong. I have 0.6a1 installed, and it's definitely a calendar.

Mozilla Sunbird would be great to have as part of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu.
But Sunbird is still missing from Feisty:

 $ apt-cache search sunbird
 opensync-plugin-sunbird - Opensync Mozilla Calendar(Sunbird) plugin
 python2.4-schoolbell - web-based calendaring server
 schoolbell - web-based calendaring server

Release info:
 $ uname -a; cat /etc/lsb-release
 Linux mini 2.6.20-14-powerpc #3 Mon Apr 2 17:15:34 UTC 2007 ppc GNU/Linux
 DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
 DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.04
 DISTRIB_CODENAME=feisty
 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.04"

I am working on sunbird in the next few days to get it built and uploaded for gutsy.
As for feisty after i get it done for gutsy the mozilla team will have it in our preview archive or a place you can get the feisty build.

Being packaged now. Marking as such.

We are only packaging this for gutsy, IF we end up packaging it for feisty it will be in the mozilla-team repo.

the package is in debian, and can be downloaded from here: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/mail/sunbird.

Are we going to take the debian package, or are you working on your own package?

I notice asac maintains the package in debian. I just to build that one in ubuntu, but it FTBFS. find the buildlog attached.

Reinhard im away from home atm but we are also getting a FTBFS ill get back to it with asac as soon as i can (maybe monday or tuesday as im still having net issues atm

So far here is what we have last i worked on it but ill will see what is wrong next week
https://code.launchpad.net/~gnomefreak/sunbird/ubuntu-0.x

Automatic build of sunbird_0.2.99+0.3alpha1-3 is the wrong build we are now building 0.5 but either way its a FTBFS

Sunbird has been added to the gutsy repository.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/web/sunbird

Yeah sorry about that i have hands full atm and forgot we pushed it already