sÃn, 02,.04.2006 kl. 21.40 +0200, skrev guenther:
So I have been down that road way too often the last week. More than once on a daily basis is sufficient to post this "just in case"... There currently is a known Debian specific issue, biting a lot of users:
Hello all :) As one of the (very) new evolution-maintainers in Debian, I'd like to chip in with a few comments on the current status and future of evolution in Debian :) First of all, these bugs mentioned are not Debian-specific bugs, but memory-management bugs in gtkhtml3.8 and evolution 2.4, which were exposed by the new memory-allocator in glib 2.10. The bugs have been fixed in cvs.gnome.org, but not in any official evo 2.4-release (someone might think of doing a 2.4.3 sometime) When this mess appeared (that is, when glib 2.10 and pango 1.12 appeared) I stepped up to fix it in Debian with NMUs (non-maintainer-uploads), and was subsequently also pulled into the evolution-maintainer-team. The problem has been fixed in unstable since 22. mar (with versions higher than evo 2.4.2.1-1.1, e-d-s 1.4.2.1-1.1 and gtkthhtml3.8/libgtkhtml3.8-15 3.8.1-1.1), but when glib2.10 was pushed into testing last week without evolution being ready to go in (failed to build on some archs due to problems further down in the dependency-chain), users of testing were also *unfortunately* affected. During the last week evo 2.6 and friends were prepared and uploaded to experimental and are right now waiting in the NEW-queue due to updated sonames in e-d-s. As it had to go into NEW, we also took the opportunity to introduce NEW -dbg packages into debian, to help bug-triaging in the future. We will wait to see how long before evolution 2.4.2.1-2 can move to testing, and how fast things go through the NEW-queue, before deciding on when the 2.14-series of evolution and friends will move from experimental to unstable. Hopefully all this will happen soonish ;) For now the options for users of testing are either to run evolution with the G_SLICE=always-malloc workaround, to downgrade libglib2.0-0 and libpango1.0-0 to 2.8/1.10, or to upgrade with unstable versions of evolution, evolution-data-server and libgtkhtml3.8-15. For the future I'd like to say that the introduction of 2 new members into the team of Debian evolution-maintainers (myself and Ãystein GisnÃs) will help bring about higher quality packages of evolution and friends in Debian, as there are now, finally, active maintainers of evolution who are also users ;) Cheers :) Heikki
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