Re: [Evolution] Evolution on Ubuntu many problems - Help required

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 20:21 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> >  My
> > experience posting questions on this list is that developers are
> > reluctant to take on problems unless you use the last Evo build, 
> That's a bit unfair.  

Unfair? This is totally bogus.  People *very* frequently come to this
list using ***ancient*** packages;  nobody, nowhere, supports ancient
versions of their stuff.   

Neither does jumping across multiple major releases and expecting
upgrades to be seamless 'fair'.  Upgrade from Microsoft Office 2000 to
2010 [no, that isn't seamless at all, some of your documents will be
munged]. Life is easier if you keep up;  no matter what, if you sit
still for multiple years - going forward from where you are is going to
have thorns.  Not that I don't understand the temptation to sit on a
working install.

Try jumping straight from PostgreSQL 8.0 to 9.1.

Try upgrading your NT4 domain to Active Directory *now*.  You can't.
The upgrade tools have all been abandoned and no longer work.

> Many bugs get fixed, especially from .0 to .1
> releases, so in general the first thing to do is to run the most recent
> version to see if your particular bug is fixed. If your problem is fixed
> in the latest version, then the solution is to use the latest version.

This is easiest to do if you use a distribution which packages current
stuff and is at least within a proximity of 'mainline'.  A very common
distribution doesn't do that.

I also don't think you need to run the "most recent version".  It
certainly helps to run something close to recent.

> If you can't run the most recent version, then you should still provide
> valid backtraces so that the problem can be located and, if it is a new
> bug, reproduced in the most recent version so it can be fixed.

Yep.