[Gpe-list] Maemo packages built from current SVN

[Graham Cobb]

I have built a set of packages for GPE on Maemo from the current SVN (actually 
from a snapshot of the the SVN at 20070316T0000Z).  These packages are 
available from my repository: please see 
http://www.cobb.uk.net/770/index.html for details of that repository.

The packages there include four applications (all in the user/pim category): 
gpe-calendar, gpe-contacts, gpe-todo and gpesyncd (let me know if there are 
other applications which have been hildon-ized and should be built).  It also 
includes the libraries necessary to support them.  These install and work for 
me on my 770.  I do not know whether they will work on the N800 or on other 
software versions.

I built these because the various packages available elsewhere are not 
consistent with each other (for example I believe it is possible to install 
an old gpe-calendar and a new gpesyncd such that they will not work 
together).  And because they do not reflect the latest SVN changes.

It would be good if current Maemo GPE users considered installing these new 
packages and testing them (reporting bugs at http://bugs.linuxtogo.org/ as 
usual).  I do intend to rebuild new packages when some more bugs have been 
fixed (and, of course, if/when there is a formal GPE release).  

One word of warning: I wanted to create consistent and clear version numbering 
so I used the snapshot date.  Unfortunately, this means that some packages 
are not regarded as newer than the versions already in other repositories.  
So, I recommend removing downloads.kernelconcepts.de and eko.one.pl from your 
sources list before upgrading.  Maybe the maintainers of those repositories 
would consider removing their GPE packages?  Also, for this reason you should 
not attempt an apt-get upgrade: remove all versions of all relevant packages 
(including the libraries) you may have currently installed before installing 
the new packages.  The complete list of packages is: libmimedir-gnome1 
libgpewidget1 libgpepimc0 libeventdb1 libtododb0 libgpevtype0 libcontactsdb1 
gpesyncd gpe-icons libschedule1  libxsettings-client0 libhandoff1 libsoup2.2 
gpe-calendar gpe-contacts gpe-todo.

Note that I plan to submit the packages to the Maemo Unofficial Debs project 
which should mean that, one day, they should be able to be automatically 
built for different ITOS releases.  MUD is also a convenient way to build 
packages for testing if you are a developer.  In the future I intend to use 
it to automatically do nightly builds from SVN and put them in my 
experimental repository.

Please let me know of any problems with these packages or suggestions for 
improving them.

Graham