[Calendarserver-maintainers] Bug#841247: Bug#841247: calypso: UnicodeDecodeError when importing an .ics

[Guido Günther]

Hi Mathias,

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 01:14:02PM +0100, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> control: affects -1 + tryton-modules-calendar tryton-modules-calendar-classification tryton-modules-calendar-scheduling tryton-modules-calendar-todo tryton-modules-party-vcarddav tryton-meta
> 
> > From: Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org>
> > To: Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com>, 841247 at bugs.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Bug#841247: calypso: UnicodeDecodeError when importing an .ics
> > Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:28:37 +0200
>  
> 
> Hi Guido,
> 
> > The unicode handling for python 2.7 got broken in upstream commit
> > 
> >     https://github.com/eventable/vobject/commit/b3f9bbcf4cf222f0dda3ac29f96364c5d7ab5f16
> > 
> > Let's see if upstream cares at all. If not we should rather drop the
> > python2.7 version for stretch.
> 
> There are currently 6 Tryton modules affected as rdepends of python-vobject.
> There are still some bits in the Tryton framework lacking Python3 support, so
> it is currently not possible to switch the whole Tryton stuff to Python3 (and I
> suppose this won't be the case for stretch). Dropping the Python2 version of
> python-vobject would seriously hurt those Tryton modules. So please let's find
> a way to keep the Python2 version in the archive (for stretch).

It breaks calyso as well which I'd rather see in the archive than
removed.

The bug is fixable. Someone needs to sit down and cook a patch. I have
it on the TODO list but work is piling up at the moment - but I hope to
get it done til the end of the year.

Somebody uploading 0.8.x for python2 would be another option.

Cheers,
 -- Guido