Bug#894482: evolution-data-server: crashes caused by lax deps on libebook-contacts, libedata-book, libedata-cal

[Paul Wise]

Package: evolution-data-server
Version: 3.28.0-2
Severity: serious
File: /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-calendar-factory
File: /usr/lib/evolution/evolution-addressbook-factory

I recently auto-upgraded evolution from testing to unstable because
evolution-rss got auto-removed from testing due to the gconf transition
so unattended-upgrades upgraded it to the latest unstable version.

This upgrade did not go well and resulted in the address book and
calendar not working because the above factory programs segfaulted.

I narrowed this down to being caused by the versioned deps on the
libebook-contacts, libedata-book and libedata-cal libraries being too
lax and allowing the versions from testing to stay installed.

Package: evolution-data-server
Depends: ... libebook-contacts-1.2-2 (>= 3.25.90) ... libedata-book-1.2-25 (>= 3.26.2), libedata-cal-1.2-28 (>= 3.26.2) ...

The crashes persisted until I did this upgrade via aptitude:

$ tail -n3 /var/log/apt/history.log
Start-Date: 2018-03-31  09:01:18
Upgrade: libebook-contacts-1.2-2:amd64 (3.26.5-2, 3.28.0-2), libedata-book-1.2-25:amd64 (3.26.5-2, 3.28.0-2), libedata-cal-1.2-28:amd64 (3.26.5-2, 3.28.0-2)
End-Date: 2018-03-31  09:01:52

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution-data-server depends on:
ii  evolution-data-server-common  3.28.0-2
ii  gnome-keyring                 3.28.0.1-1
ii  libc6                         2.27-2
ii  libcamel-1.2-61               3.28.0-2
ii  libdb5.3                      5.3.28-13.1+b1
ii  libebackend-1.2-10            3.28.0-2
ii  libebook-1.2-19              3.28.0-2
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-2       3.28.0-2
ii  libecal-1.2-19                3.28.0-2
ii  libedata-book-1.2-25          3.28.0-2
ii  libedata-cal-1.2-28           3.28.0-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23         3.28.0-2
ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.28.0-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                 3.28.0-1
ii  libgdata22                    0.17.9-2
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.56.0-4
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                 3.28.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.22.29-2
ii  libgweather-3-15              3.28.1-1
ii  libical3                      3.0.1-5
ii  libldap-2.4-2                 2.4.45+dfsg-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.42.0-1
ii  libsecret-1-0                 0.18.5-6
ii  libsoup2.4-1                  2.62.0-1
ii  libxml2                       2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1

evolution-data-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages evolution-data-server suggests:
ii  evolution  3.28.0-3

-- no debconf information

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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