Bug#1004917: evolution: Contacts API is deprecated. Migrate to People API to retain programmatic access to Google Contacts

[Martin Tharby Jones]

Package: evolution
Version: 3.38.3-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: martin at brasskipper.org.uk

Dear Maintainer,

evolution dislays the following error. I believe this is fixed in testing,
please build evolution in bullseye-backports so that the fix is avalible to
those using stable.

Failed to connect address book “martin at brasskipper.org.uk : Contacts”

Invalid request URI or header, or unsupported nonstandard parameter: Contacts
API is being deprecated. Migrate to People API to retain programmatic access to
Google Contacts. See https://developers.google.com/people/contacts-api-
migration.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages evolution depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.12.20-2
ii  evolution-common       3.38.3-1
ii  evolution-data-server  3.38.3-1
ii  libc6                  2.31-13+deb11u2
ii  libcamel-1.2-62        3.38.3-1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0   1.8.4-4
ii  libecal-2.0-1          3.38.3-1
ii  libedataserver-1.2-25  3.38.3-1
ii  libevolution           3.38.3-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.66.8-1
ii  libgtk-3-0             3.24.24-4
ii  libical3               3.0.9-2
ii  libnotify4             0.7.9-3
ii  libsoup2.4-1           2.72.0-2
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37   2.34.4-1~deb11u1
ii  libxml2                2.9.10+dfsg-6.7
ii  psmisc                 23.4-2

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-plugin-bogofilter  3.38.3-1
ii  evolution-plugin-pstimport   3.38.3-1
ii  evolution-plugins            3.38.3-1
ii  yelp                         3.38.3-1

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-ews                   <none>
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           2.2.27-2
ii  network-manager                 1.30.0-2