[Evolution] Bug#746436: Re: evolution-data-server: Unable to read any messages

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

severity 746436 important
tags 746436 moreinfo unreproducible
thanks

Hi,

On 02/05/14 17:07, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Jordi,
> 
> 
> thank you for your reply!
> 
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 01.05.2014, 15:32 +0200 schrieb Jordi Mallach:
> 
>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:16:44AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
>>> Package: evolution-data-server
>>> Version: 3.12.0-1
>>> Severity: grave
>>> Tags: upstream
>>> Justification: renders package unusable
>>> Control: forwarded -1 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728976
>>> Control: found -1 3.12.1-1
> 
> […]
> 
>>> upgrading from Evolution Data Server 3.8.5 to 3.12.x it is impossible to
>>> read messages. They are not shown.
>>>
>>> Even building Evolution Data Server from the upstream branch
>>> `evolution-data-server-3-12` with the commit below does not help.
>>>
>>>     commit 4615a98c7be1e3f8d23aa8a1c4f43b9d1fb62712
>>>     Author: Milan Crha <mcrha at redhat.com>
>>>     Date:   Fri Apr 25 08:33:48 2014 +0200
>>>
>>>         Remove unused imapx_unmark_folder_subscribed()
>>>
>>> There are more issues like this reported in the GNOME Bugzilla, so spare
>>> Jessie/testing users from the regular Evolution upgrade pain until
>>> upstream fixes these issues.
>>
>> Thanks for the report. I wonder if you've tried with both e-d-s _and_
>> evolution from unstable, ie 3.12.1. There's a ton of bugfixes in there.
> 
> Yes, I did try Evolution and E-D-S 3.12.0 and 3.12.1.
> 
>> It's interesting we've only got one bug report like this in Debian,
> 
> I suppose most “mail power users”, i. e. users with over 10 accounts
> (POP and IMAP) and several hundred thousands of messages and those users
> probably using Debian Sid/unstable, moved away from Evolution a long
> time ago and I am the only masochist still using it. You are using Mutt
> too, if I am not mistaken. :P
> 
> Point is, it is not surprising, that there are only a few reports as I
> believe most Evolution users do not know how to submit a bug report and
> just accept crashes and other flaws.
> 
>> so let's see if we can track it down fast and let eds migrate.
> 
> I’ll try to help upstream to get these issues fixed, but I strongly
> believe the migration should wait until at least Evolution Data Server
> 3.12.2 is released. As you can see in the branch
> evolution-data-server-3-12 there are several critical fixes in there
> already.

Given that we've got no other reports like this, and that nobody from our team
can reproduce this, I'm downgrading the severity.

You're still encouraged to provide the requested information and we'll then try
to get this fixed, but I don't think this should block testing migration any longer.

Regards,
Emilio