geary backport to bullseye

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 4:54 PM Andres Salomon <dilinger at queued.net> wrote:
> I've been having various issues with geary (3.38.1-1) in stable,
> including the search just flat out not working (#1003658),

Could you send a followup to that bug mentioning what version you
experienced the problem with?

> I'd like to upload to backports.debian.org, or I'm requesting that you do
> so as package maintainer. I know 40.0-7 isn't yet in testing, which is
> why I sent a fix for #1016254 to unblock the migration; the migration
> should hopefully happen in the next few days.

The blocker for migration to Testing is that geary's build test is
failing on armel and armhf.

> As far as the backport, I had to backport the following packages:
>
> gi-docgen_2022.1+ds-1~bpo11+1_source.changes
> libhandy-1_1.8.0-1~bpo11+1_source.changes

You probably don't actually need or want that version of libhandy. The
dependency was bumped for the GNOME 42 dark theme preference (which
wouldn't work on Debian 11).

I don't believe you need gi-docgen either.

Ideally, you could isolate the specific commits that fix your issues
and then get those fixes into a stable update for geary so that
everyone using Geary on Debian 11 benefits.

I'm not going to personally work on backports as I have too many
projects I'm working on for Ubuntu and for Debian Testing. We do need
to know if you do a backport as it could affect the Breaks we added
for gnome-online-accounts as part of the big GNOME 43 transition.

Why don't you try building geary 40.0-1? I believe all the later
changes are unnecessary for Debian 11. It simplifies you needing to
revert so many things.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha