[SyncEvolution] Compatibility with Evolution 3.8

[Patrick Ohly]

On Fri, 2014-02-07 at 15:32 +0100, Daniel CLEMENT wrote:
> Le jeudi 02 janvier 2014 à 09:37 +0100, Patrick Ohly a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 15:34 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 15:24 +0200, Daniel CLEMENT wrote:
> > > > Hmm... Partially answering to myself, it seems to be a dependency issue.
> > > > 
> > > > Evolution 3.8 wants (and installs as dependency) libebook-1.2-14. 
> > > > 
> > > > Syncevolution then complains that libebook-1.2-13 is missing and not
> > > > installable, whereas it should be content with version 1.2-14 (?)
> > > 
> > > No, these two versions of libebook are incompatible. There have been
> > > considerable API changes between 3.4 and 3.6.
> > 
> > For the sake of those landing in this mail thread via search engines:
> > the syncevolution-bundle package >= 1.3.99.6 works with old (< 3.6) and
> > new EDS (>= 3.6) versions. There was a bug in the syncevolution-eds
> > 1.3.99.6 meta data which prevents installing it with EDS >= 3.6; just
> > install the bundle, it has the necessary binaries. This will be fixed
> > (and covered by automated tests) in SyncEvolution > 1.3.99.6.
> > 
> Hello, I was waiting for the latest update pack in Linux Mint Debian to
> try this. Evolution 3.8 is part of the updates, so I needed Syncevo.
> 1.3.99. I pulled it from the unstable repo., but it doesn't look good.
> 
> The GUI is sort of empty (no icon, no status) and if I choose "Change or
> modify sync service", I get: "Impossible to retrieve the list of
> supported services from Syncevolution". (I try my best to translate from
> French.)

Looks like syncevo-dbus-server isn't running properly.

Please start it in a shell with "/usr/libexec/syncevo-dbus-server" and
check what it reports. Then start the UI.

-- 
Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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