Bug#1110514: evolution: addressbook-export cannot export contacts

webmailadress1 webmailadress1 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 09:36:51 BST 2025


Package: evolution
Version: 3.56.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: webmailadress1 at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

On Debian Trixie, the `/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/addressbook-export`
binary is not able to export contacts from Evolution.

Steps to reproduce:

 * Create at least one contact in the Evolution default address book
   ("On This Computer - Personnal")
 * From a terminal, type `/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/addressbook-export`
   to export the Contacts to VCard format.

Expected behavior: The addressbook in VCard format is dump on stdout

Observed behavior: The following error is reported:

`̀̀ `
(addressbook-export:45771): addressbook-export-WARNING **: 10:34:41.233: Failed to get contacts: Cannot get contact list: Requête « #t » non valide
`̀``

Additionally, `/usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/addressbook-export -L`
show no contacts:

`̀``
"system-address-book","On This Computer : Personal",0
```

Maybe this is a compatibility issue between evolution and evolution-data-server in Trixie?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
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 [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.16.2-2
ii  evolution-common                3.56.1-1
ii  evolution-data-server           3.56.1-2
ii  libc6                           2.41-11
ii  libcamel-1.2-64t64              3.56.1-2
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                1.26.4+git2779b932+dfsg-7+b2
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0            1.8.4-6
ii  libcogl20                       1.22.8-5
ii  libecal-2.0-3                   3.56.1-2
ii  libedataserver-1.2-27t64        3.56.1-2
ii  libevolution                    3.56.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0t64                 2.84.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0t64                   3.24.49-3
ii  libical3t64                     3.0.20-1+b1
ii  libnotify4                      0.8.6-1
ii  libwebkit2gtk-4.1-0             2.48.3-1
ii  libxml2                         2.12.7+dfsg+really2.9.14-2.1
ii  psmisc                          23.7-2

Versions of packages evolution recommends:
ii  evolution-ews                3.56.1-1
ii  evolution-plugin-bogofilter  3.56.1-1
ii  evolution-plugin-pstimport   3.56.1-1
ii  evolution-plugins            3.56.1-1
ii  yelp                         42.2-4

Versions of packages evolution suggests:
pn  evolution-plugins-experimental  <none>
ii  gnupg                           2.4.7-21
ii  network-manager                 1.52.1-1

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