[SyncEvolution] Comparison was impossible.

Marc Bantle syncevolution at rcie.de
Fri Sep 11 08:23:50 UTC 2015


Am Freitag, den 11.09.2015, 08:20 +0200 schrieb Patrick Ohly:
> On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 23:22 +0200, Marc Bantle wrote:
> > Am Montag, den 03.08.2015, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Marc Bantle:
> > > And yes, the perl system installed seems to be very "reduced", for some
> > > reason.
> > 
> > Ubuntu touch comes with package perl-base instead of 
> > perl since OTA-5 to save 17MB root-fs. Previous versions 
> > had a full perl package aboard. According to the
> > developers, none of the packages delivered with the base 
> > system (apt-)depends on perl. 
> > 
> > I checked syncevolution-common and it does neither. So
> > should syncevolution-common add a dependency to perl?
> 
> It's not a hard dependency, more like a recommendation.

Agreed!

> >  Or 
> > is there maybe a way to do a detailed compare without the 
> > Base64 and MD5 modules from package perl.
> 
> There's a long-standing feature request to rewrite synccompare in C++,
> but no-one had the interest and time to do it.

I'd sure like to do that, but I'm afraid I don't have the 
time either.

Regards,
Marc







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