Bug#1024674: libphonenumber8: breaks Evolution

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Hey Tony.

On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 20:40 -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> Thank you for the bug report.  libphonenumber 8.12.57+ds-1 has been
> in
> testing for longer than a month at this point [1].  Has it been
> broken
> all of this time?  If not, I suspect this is related the protobuf
> transition [2].

No, it was fine all the time with 8.12.57+ds-1+b1 (and backporting to
it fixes the issue, too). Only 8.12.57+ds-1+b2 introduced the problem.

So yes, it may be related to the transition.

But given that the dependency for evolution (or rather libebook-
contacts-1.2-4) I thought the starting point of "responsibility" (in
terms of package dependencies) should be there.



> I'm not seeing the crash here, but I'm running vanilla unstable and
> not
> unstable-debug

I don't think this makes a difference... the unstable-debug is just
there because I have the debug repo enabled, but the packages are from
unstable:
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
                                                ^
                                                |

> You mention that it crashes
> and that it ends up in a weird state while it's running.  Does that
> mean
> it crashes and exits sometimes?  Or that logs an error and continues
> running?

No,... sorry for not describing it clearly.

I had evolution running, while I've upgraded. And didn't restart it
afterwards (at least not immediately).

I then noticed some weird things... when replying to a mail, there was
no quoting of the mail I replied to (i.e. I got a new compose window,
but no text in it).
Also I couldn't save my composed mail as draft (some strange error
popup within evolution itself).

Since I suspected some issues, I restarted evolution, and only then
I've noticed the libphonenumber related error I've mentioned in the
initial mail.


Perhaps we should get the protobuf people on board in this issue?


Thanks,
Chris.