[Bug 317602] [NEW] Please upgrade libpst from upstream at www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst

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Public bug reported:

Evolution 2.26 (to be available in Jaunty) has added a new importer (as
an Evolution plugin) for Outlook PST files; this will allow for
integrated conversion from Outlook saved emails to Evolution. See [1]
for details.

This importer requires libpst to be at version 0.6.17, or later.
Currently available libpst on Ubuntu is 0.5.3-1 for Jaunty, and is
incompatible.

A check on Debian shows the latest available version as 0.5.3, so also
incompatible. Moreover, Debian is in deep freeze now, and we cannot
expect a newer version to be available soon [2].

So. The option seems to package directly from upstream; Evolution used a
fork [3] from the original source [4], so www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst is
the upstream.

Although Evolution upstream based the development on libpst 0.6.17, the
currently available version is 0.6.24. I am currently checking on the
possibility of using 0.6.24 (so that we will be up-to-date). An
additional patch has been proposed by the Evolution developer to allow
libpst to be created as a shared library, and would have to be added in
the source.

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208426
[2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=readpst&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
[3] http://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/
[4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/ ; the last released source was on 2002, so we can say this project is abandoned.

** Affects: libpst (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: needs-packaging

** Tags added: needs-packaging

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Please upgrade libpst from upstream at www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst
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