Is this project still active at all?

Christoph Erhardt christoph.erhardt at sicherha.de
Fri Feb 5 23:22:15 CET 2021


Hi,

yep, Debian 10 is supported and works fine - it's just that the documentation 
doesn't reflect that fact yet. To be precise, the documentation sources 
themselves have been updated, but the build job is currently broken, so 
https://docs.kolab.org/ hasn't seen any updates in a while...

As for upcoming Debian 11 support, that's something I definitely intend to 
work on. I'm currently attempting to port libkolab to KDE Frameworks 5 in 
order to get rid of the dependency on libcalendaring and Qt 4. That's a 
prerequisite for supporting any recent distro because everybody either has 
already dropped Qt 4 or is about to do it. I haven't got a clear picture yet 
of how much of a hassle this endeavour is going to prove, so wish me luck.

Best,
Christoph

On Wednesday, 3 February 2021 16:14:45 CET Florian Beckmann wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> regarding install in Debian 10, did you see this?
> 
> http://obs.kolabsys.com/repositories/Kolab:/16/Debian_10.0/
> 
> So /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kolab.list should contain the lines:
> 
> deb http://obs.kolabsys.com/repositories/Kolab:/16/Debian_10.0/ ./
> deb-src http://obs.kolabsys.com/repositories/Kolab:/16/Debian_10.0/ ./
> 
> Don't forget pinning as mentioned in the "old" docs.
> 
> I just managed to install Kolab packages on Debian testing (running on my
> "workstation").
> 
> I had to downgrade a package or two (to stable, obviously, like apt install
> libkolabxml1v5=1.2.0-0~kolab9, and libapache2-mod-php7.3 to provide
> phpapi-20180731 - this shouldn't be necessary when running stable/buster)
> and got a dpkg error with kolab-freebusy complaining about
> 
> "conffile name 'etc/kolab-freebusy/config.ini' is not an absolute pathname"
> 
> So I fetched the debian sources with "apt source kolab-freebusy", changed
> the line in kolab-freebusy-1.1.2/debian/conffiles
> 
> from "etc/kolab-freebusy/config.in" to "/etc/kolab-freebusy/config.ini"
> 
> and built the package with dpkg-buildpackage.
> Then installed it with "dpkg -i kolab-freebusy_1.1.2-0~kolab3_all.deb" and
> had no dpkg error anymore.
> 
> I actually want to install Kolab on my old raspberry pi (which is my media/
> homecloud server), but since not all packages are available for "armhf" I'm
> currently fiddling around a lot with apt source and dpkg-buildpackage.
> It will take a while (yeah I know I'm nuts), but I succeeded once before
> years ago with Ubuntu, so I'm hopeful.
> 
> Anyway, just wanted to report it is possible to install Kolab on Debian 10.
> Didn't configure/setup anything (yet)  though.
> 
> I also think the community should be more involved to provide a better user
> experience. But I guess that's up to us - the community.
> 
> Cheers,
> Florian
> 
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