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diff --git a/doc/bugs/Unfortunate_interaction_with_Calibre.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Unfortunate_interaction_with_Calibre.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 16921a06e..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/Unfortunate_interaction_with_Calibre.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -# 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. - -> [[done]]; the assistant uses direct mode by default now to avoid -> this kind of thing. --[[Joey]] |