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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] ancient data recovery: GPE calendar
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 02:42:44PM +0200, karl@??? wrote:
> Hendrik:
> ...
> > You found a little more than I did. Running this package on a wheezy
> > system is probably the easiest way to read the calendar. But exporting
> > it to a modern file format is likely another matter.
> >
> > I managed to find the wheezy source package. But the way the word has
> > changed, it may be easiest to use the binary package on a real wheezy
> > system thatn to try to build the package in a modern system.
>
> I have in my archives:
> gpe-calendar_0.91.orig.tar.gz
> gpe-calendar_0.92.orig.tar.bz2


I have the second one, too. But I'm likey to have to find more before I
can do anything with it.

> in case you want them.
>
> The first one gives on configure:
> No package 'libgpewidget' found
> No package 'libgpepimc' found
> No package 'libgpevtype' found
> No package 'libeventdb' found
> No package 'esound' found
> No package 'libxsettings-client' found
> No package 'libhandoff' found
> No package 'libsoup-2.2' found
> No package 'libsoundgen' found
> No package 'dbus-glib-1' found
> No package 'libschedule' found


Yes, that's the kind of 'more' I'll need,

>
> > I'm still exploring alternatives before taking action.
>
> The best bet is to set up a wheezy system and go from there.


Very likely.

-- hendrik

>
> > For past events, I'd be happy with a complete, readable text file. I
> > might be able to write a program to produce that if I find a compatible
> > version of sqlite, or if current sqlite will upgrade the db to whatever
> > it uses now.
> ...
>
> There is no dependancy on sqlite:
> $ find . -type f | xargs grep sql 
> ./ChangeLog:    * configure.ac: Remove dependencies on sqlite and mimedir-1.0.


Interesting.
> ./ChangeLog:    (do_import_vevent): Don't open an sqlite session, insert directly
> ./ChangeLog:    * Makefile: Don't link with -lsqlite.  Use STANDARD_CFLAGS,
> ./ChangeLog:    * familiar/control1 (Depends): Remove libsqlite0.  Add 


-- hendrik