Bug#997824: evolution-data-server: Backport patches to switch from Google Contacts API to CalDAV to stable

[Philip Withnall]

Package: evolution-data-server
Version: 3.38.3-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Please consider backporting patches from Debian testing/unstable to stable to switch Evolution and EDS to use CalDAV for accessing Google Contacts. The current method of accessing it, the Google Contacts API, is deprecated and will effectively be turned off in December 2021. This will make all requests (from existing and new users) for calendar data fail.

The necessary patches are here:
 * https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/evolution/-/merge_requests/3
 * https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/evolution-data-server/-/merge_requests/5

I am reporting this via reportbug as there appear to be several existing MRs (for unrelated issues) in salsa.debian.org for Evolution and EDS which have gone unanswered, so I’m guessing the Evo/EDS package maintainers don’t check salsa.


-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Endless
Description:	Endless 5.0.0
Release:	5.0.0
Codename:	n/a
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 5.11.0-35-generic (SMP w/1 CPU thread)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages evolution-data-server depends on:
ii  evolution-data-server-common  3.38.3-1
ii  gnome-keyring                 3.36.0-1
ii  libc6                         2.31-13+deb11u2
ii  libcamel-1.2-62               3.38.3-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0            0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                  0.30-7
ii  libdb5.3                      5.3.28+dfsg1-0.8
ii  libebackend-1.2-10            3.38.3-1
ii  libebook-1.2-20               3.38.3-1
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-3       3.38.3-1
ii  libecal-2.0-1                 3.38.3-1
ii  libedata-book-1.2-26          3.38.3-1
ii  libedata-cal-2.0-1            3.38.3-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-25         3.38.3-1
ii  libedataserverui-1.2-2        3.38.3-1
ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.38.1-2
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                 3.38.1-2
ii  libgdata22                    0.17.13-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.66.8-1
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                 3.38.1-2endless1bem1
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.24.24-4
ii  libgweather-3-16              3.36.1-3
ii  libical3                      3.0.9-2
ii  libldap-2.4-2                 2.4.57+dfsg-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.46.2-3
ii  libsecret-1-0                 0.20.4-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1                  2.72.0-2
ii  libxml2                       2.9.10+dfsg-6.7

evolution-data-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages evolution-data-server suggests:
ii  evolution  3.38.3-1

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