[Evolution] Bug#559522: transition: evolution-data-server 2.28

[Simon McVittie]

Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition

evolution-data-server is having some difficulty getting into testing, which
is holding up quite a few other packages, so I've tried to analyze the
situation a bit; I hope this is helpful.

libevolution5.0-cil (src:evolution-sharp) is basically broken; it hasn't
been ported to evolution-data-server 2.28 and fails to build against it.
The bug has been sent upstream but upstream say no more than "yes, we should
fix this". It might be possible to just override the check and make it build,
or that might result in another FTBFS, or a broken build... perhaps the
e-d-s or evo# maintainers could suggest how to move forward?

If evo# (132 popcon votes) was removed, we'd lose tasque, gfax,
gnome-do-plugins and beagle (34, 42, 347 and 939 popcon votes respectively).
gnome-do-plugins and beagle could presumably both be compiled with Evolution
support disabled, if evo# remains broken for long enough to make it necessary?

mail-notification-evolution is uninstallable in sid, but according to #559106
a simple rebuild works fine. Could it just be binNMU'd?

Meanwhile, xiphos ties the transition to xulrunner, which seems unfortunate.
It's a leaf package with about 500 installations, 70 votes in popcon.

I believe that when evolution-data-server goes into testing,
the gnome-panel / libgnomekbd / libxklavier cluster will be able to go in
too, although they may well need hinting to go together.

Regards,
    Simon
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