[Evolution] Sorting by subject makes Evolution crash - Was: "Reply to Sender" does same thing as "Reply to All"

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf alice-dsl net>]

On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 08:05 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 13:37 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 13:21 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 12:46 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > > > However, Evolution does change it's behaviour with each upgrade to
> > > > current stable versions of it's dependencies from upstream
> > > Either stop spreading FUD, or be way more exact.
> > The issues do change, 
>
> Of course they change;  releases done to include changes.
>
> > at the moment it's annoying for me that Evolution
> > crashes when I try to sort by subject.
>
> Something in your distributions is *seriously* broken.  That is not
> Evolution.  I have not seen Evolution crash for a very long time; and I
> *use* it every single day for 8+ hours.
>
> > I'm serious and not trolling. What distro does provide a stable
> > Evolution?
>
> openSUSE.  At least it is entirely stable for me, on my hardware.
>
> > It's in the mail header, but FWIW, the version is 3.10.2 on a 64-bit up
> > to date Arch Linux, IOW every dependency should be the current stable
> > release from upstream. I don't remember when the issue started, but it
> > seems to be one of the issues that appeared after upgrading other
> > software, IOW seemingly something from the dependency chain.
>
> Of course, everything of significance is built on a dependency chain.
> It is a problem when people believe it is OK to just willy-nilly upgrade
> random parts of that chain.  That component W is a stable release does
> not mean that X, Y, and Z will run using it without issue;  X, Y, and Z
> may need to be updated to reflect changes in W.  Or at least QC needs to
> occur.
>
> Anyway, again, 3.8.x was stable for me, and 3.10.x is stable for me.  I
> sort, and search, and read, and send... all day long.

Neither Arch Linux nor I do willy-nilly upgrade something, but I will
forward this to Arch general mailing list. I'm using Linux only for more
then 10 years. Suse isn't an option for my needs.

Regards,
Ralf