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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Unfortunate_interaction_with_Calibre.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Unfortunate_interaction_with_Calibre.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..d00a6720c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/Unfortunate_interaction_with_Calibre.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Calibre + +Calibre is a somewhat popular eBook management package that's also free software. <http://calibre-ebook.com/> + +Install via + # apt-get install calibre + +There is a somewhat unfortunate interaction between Calibre and git-annex... + +* git-annex makes its files become read-only. By the way, that's not quite obvious from the documentation; I suggest making that more prominent. +* Calibre modifies files (not quite sure of semantics, how, or why) when doing various operations, notably such as when copying a book from one's library to one's portable reading device. + +These don't play well together, sadly. + +I'd expect most of the issue to sit on the Calibre side, and have reported it as a bug. +[Calibre bug #739045](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/739045) +Preliminary indication is that they're treating it as a functionality change they'll decline to fix. Which isn't entirely unreasonable - I anticipated as much, and I don't want to treat that as a bad/wrong decision. + +However, I think it's: +* Unfortunate, as fitting Calibre together with git-annex seems like a neat idea. +* Useful to make sure that this kind of "doesn't play well together" condition is documented, even if only as a bug report. |