Bug#1025729: evolution-data-server: Gmail OAuth2: "Access blocked: GNOME Evolution’s request is invalid"

[James Taylor]

Package: evolution-data-server
Version: 3.30.5-1+deb10u2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Google deprecated a type of OAuth flow in Feb 28, 2022. This was fixed and addressed upstream
shortly after at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/-/issues/388 and
the fix was included in version 3.44.2. However, Google has recently begun blocking
the old format. My Oauth2 token expired December 7th, 2022 so I can no longer access
my gmail account from evolution. A suitably recent version is available in Testing.

But the software is now partially unusable for the stable releases. I hope this is the
right channel for this. I wanted to note this upstream bug down here so you are aware
of the need to include the fixes in stable and oldstable.

Reproducing: Attempt to log in to a gmail account using OAuth2


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.13
  APT prefers oldstable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-22-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evolution-data-server depends on:
ii  evolution-data-server-common  3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  gnome-keyring                 3.28.2-5
ii  libc6                         2.28-10+deb10u2
ii  libcamel-1.2-62               3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0            0.30-7
ii  libcanberra0                  0.30-7
ii  libdb5.3                      5.3.28+dfsg1-0.5
ii  libebackend-1.2-10            3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libebook-1.2-19               3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libebook-contacts-1.2-2       3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libecal-1.2-19                3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libedata-book-1.2-25          3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libedata-cal-1.2-29           3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-23         3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libedataserverui-1.2-2        3.30.5-1+deb10u2
ii  libgcr-base-3-1               3.28.1-1
ii  libgcr-ui-3-1                 3.28.1-1
ii  libgdata22                    0.17.9-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.58.3-2+deb10u4
ii  libgoa-1.0-0b                 3.30.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                    3.24.5-1
ii  libgweather-3-15              3.28.2-2
ii  libical3                      3.0.4-3
ii  libldap-2.4-2                 2.4.47+dfsg-3+deb10u7
ii  libpango-1.0-0                1.42.4-8~deb10u1
ii  libsecret-1-0                 0.18.7-1
ii  libsoup2.4-1                  2.64.2-2
ii  libxml2                       2.9.4+dfsg1-7+deb10u5

evolution-data-server recommends no packages.

Versions of packages evolution-data-server suggests:
ii  evolution  3.30.5-1.1

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