Hello! Some information below which might be useful....
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 09:37:24PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Source: syncevolution > Version: 1.4.99.4-5 > Severity: serious > > Hi, > > during the libical transition [1], your package syncevolution was > rebuilt and it now FTBFS: [...] > src/syncevo/.libs/libsyncevolution.so: undefined reference to > `ical_tzid_prefix' [...] I've quickly looked into this issue since it was discovered (sorry I missed spotting it before the transition started). The global variable referenced above is indeed gone (in general libical seems to be moving away from global variables in 2.0.0 in favour of accessor methods). The new accessor function to get the value is called icaltimezone_tzid_prefix(). See: http://sources.debian.net/src/libical/2.0.0-0.4/src/libical/icaltimezone.c/?hl=150#L150 I looked upstream but there seemed to be very little activity in recent time. Possibly there's some bug tracker or mailing list post somewhere, but I didn't search that far. The libical2 transition has already been done in fedora so for comparison they're patching their syncevolution, see: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/syncevolution.git/tree/syncevolution-1.5.1-libical2.patch IMNSHO the fedora patch is an ugly hack since duplicating the information instead of using accessor method isn't nice IMO. OTOH I've looked at syncevolutions usage of the global variable and if we're going to replace it we see it in two places. The one failing the build above + in the syncevolution homebrew/duplicated evolution(-data-server?) API. That one looks too scary to touch for me who has no way to test this so I sympathize with fedoras patch and maybe it's better to go that route. Also, the get accessor seems to be missing from the libical2.symbols for some reason so might need fixes on the libical side to be properly exported.... Regards, Andreas Henriksson
