bug#22458: Collision between khal and vdirsyncer "bin/vdirsyncer"

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> The packages khal and vdirsyncer are meant to be used together. Khal is
>> a console calendar program and vdirsyncer synchronizes CalDAV data from
>> a remote server to the local filesystem so that khal can use it.
>
> Then why do they both provide the same file?  :-)
>
>> For some reason, the khal package is creating an
>> "EASY-INSTALL-ENTRY-SCRIPT" (as "bin/.vdirsyncer-real") that wraps the
>> propagated vdirsyncer executable. This means that both the khal and
>> vdirsyncer packages contain the path "bin/vdirsyncer", which is
>> annoying. Thankfully, they both end up executing the real vdirsyncer.
>
> I’m not sure I follow.  Does upstream khal explicitly intend to install
> its own bin/vdirsyncer?

Ping?  :-)

Ludo’.