On Wednesday 29 June 2011 13:56:51 Mathias Homann wrote:

hi there,

I'm still trying to package calibre >= 0.8 for opensuse. Problems are: 1. calibre by now requires python 2.7.1 or higher but NOT python 3 2. the original author is about as cooperative and helpful as the german tax authorities on a bad day. His general approach to any kind of support question is "If you're not running the binaries from my website, go eff yourself."

While having Python-2.7.1 for openSUSE-11.4 would be nice indeed, I still don't see the reason why anything should require that exact version. It's supposed to be ABI-compatible with 2.7.0. Does calibre build/run with 2.7.0 or not? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com

On 06/29/2011 01:56 PM, Mathias Homann wrote:

hi there,

I'm still trying to package calibre>= 0.8 for opensuse. Problems are: 1. calibre by now requires python 2.7.1 or higher but NOT python 3

2.7 should be OK as Sasha said, I'll look into calibre. Any bug # btw?

2. the original author is about as cooperative and helpful as the german tax authorities on a bad day. His general approach to any kind of support question is "If you're not running the binaries from my website, go eff yourself."

Thats a nice summary of German tax people :D

...problem with that is, calibre is pretty much the only decent ebook reader management software that is platform independent.

Yeah I heard so too. Regards. -- Ismail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 02:38:49PM +0200, Mathias Homann wrote:

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Why not stick to calibre < 0.8 for anything but factory ?

because with each version calibre gets more automated news sources? As in, electronic newspaper, automated download & generation of ebooks of those, and upload to devices?

And, I wanted it in Tumbleweed as people asked for it, but had to drop it because of this issue. It would be interesting to find out why calibre thinks it needs 2.7.1, as pointed out, 2.7.0 should be compatible. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

Hi; On 06/29/2011 04:23 PM, Sascha Manns wrote:

Hello Mathias,

"Mathias Homann" wrote at Wednesday 29 June 2011:

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I'm still trying to package calibre>= 0.8 for opensuse. Problems are: 1. calibre by now requires python 2.7.1 or higher but NOT python 3 2. the original author is about as cooperative and helpful as the german tax authorities on a bad day. His general approach to any kind of support question is "If you're not running the binaries from my website, go eff yourself." We have already calibre in Documentation:Tools. But we worked on the same issues ;-)

ATM we have two packages in D:T: calibre and calibre07. So everyone who wants for<= 11.4 he can use calibre07 which is the last 0.7.x version. People who uses>= 11.4 and would like to have the 0.8.x Series, they can use calibre. That Package is build against the 2.7.1 python.

Actual we must rewrite some packages in calibre, because the Sourcecode was changed on some places. Inside the next week(s) we hoping to present a ready calibre Package. Also we planning to make a Announcement who explains how this tricky work works.

None of you so far told us whats the exact problem is python 2.7 is, if you can tell us the problem then we can find a solution. Regards. -- Ismail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

Am Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:03:08 +0200 schrieb Sascha Peilicke :

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 13:56:51 Mathias Homann wrote:

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hi there,

I'm still trying to package calibre >= 0.8 for opensuse. Problems are: 1. calibre by now requires python 2.7.1 or higher but NOT python 3 2. the original author is about as cooperative and helpful as the german tax authorities on a bad day. His general approach to any kind of support question is "If you're not running the binaries from my website, go eff yourself."

While having Python-2.7.1 for openSUSE-11.4 would be nice indeed, I still don't see the reason why anything should require that exact version. It's supposed to be ABI-compatible with 2.7.0. Does calibre build/run with 2.7.0 or not? The only Requirement for 2.7.1 I can find is the Website. I built it locally and it runs fine with python-2.7.0

P.S. There were some problems with translation install, but it was nothing that it did not work ;) -- Oliver Bengs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

Am Wed 29 Jun 2011 10:01:05 PM CEST schrieb Nelson Marques :

If it works (after proper testing) why not hack the configure.ac and lower the requirements of python?

The thing is there is no such hard requirement in the source code, it builds fine with 2.7.0. Regards. -- Ismail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

Hi Mathias, On Wednesday 29 June 2011 Mathias Homann wrote:

I'm still trying to package calibre >= 0.8 for opensuse. [...]

By the way: Calibre is already available under Documentation:Tools. However, it has some problems at the moment[1]. I guess, you will run into the same problems. If you know a solution, let us know. [1] http://paste.opensuse.org/11165974 -- Gruß/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/thomas-schraitle/ SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org

Ismail Doenmez schrieb:

On 07/01/2011 02:13 PM, Thomas Schraitle wrote:

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Hi Mathias,

On Wednesday 29 June 2011 Mathias Homann wrote:

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I'm still trying to package calibre>= 0.8 for opensuse. [...]

By the way: Calibre is already available under Documentation:Tools. However, it has some problems at the moment[1]. I guess, you will run into the same problems. If you know a solution, let us know.

Compiled against a different PyQt it seems (compared to the system one).

Yup. my repo builds against K:R:46. bye, MH -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org