Bug#1024674: libphonenumber8: breaks Evolution

[tony mancill]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 05:51:50AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hey Tony.
> 
> On Tue, 2022-11-22 at 20:40 -0800, tony mancill wrote:
> > Thank you for the bug report.  libphonenumber 8.12.57+ds-1 has been
> > in
> > testing for longer than a month at this point [1].  Has it been
> > broken
> > all of this time?  If not, I suspect this is related the protobuf
> > transition [2].
> 
> No, it was fine all the time with 8.12.57+ds-1+b1 (and backporting to
> it fixes the issue, too). Only 8.12.57+ds-1+b2 introduced the problem.

Good to know.  I will start by picking through the build logs here:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libphonenumber&arch=amd64&ver=8.12.57%2Bds-1%2Bb2&stamp=1669158118&raw=0

> But given that the dependency for evolution (or rather libebook-
> contacts-1.2-4) I thought the starting point of "responsibility" (in
> terms of package dependencies) should be there.

Yes, totally.  I didn't mean to imply that the bug shouldn't be here.

> > I'm not seeing the crash here, but I'm running vanilla unstable and
> > not
> > unstable-debug
> 
> I don't think this makes a difference... the unstable-debug is just
> there because I have the debug repo enabled, but the packages are from
> unstable:
> >   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable')

(nodding)

> I had evolution running, while I've upgraded. And didn't restart it
> afterwards (at least not immediately).
> 
> I then noticed some weird things... when replying to a mail, there was
> no quoting of the mail I replied to (i.e. I got a new compose window,
> but no text in it).
> Also I couldn't save my composed mail as draft (some strange error
> popup within evolution itself).

Interesting...
 
> Since I suspected some issues, I restarted evolution, and only then
> I've noticed the libphonenumber related error I've mentioned in the
> initial mail.

Ugh, so it's completely broken for you now.
 
> Perhaps we should get the protobuf people on board in this issue?

I have added Laszlo to the cc:  I'm rebuilding locally against the
3.21.9-4 protobuf sources to attempt to reproduce the bug.

Thank you,
tony
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