Re: [Evolution] Have I pushed Evolution beyond where it is designed to go?

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 09:19 -0600, Anonymous Japhering via evolution-
list wrote:
> The 3.46.x flatpak series has been a total disaster for me.
> Mysterious segfaults after 15 or so actions.

This is (probably) due to the bug in libsoup, which has been fixed but
that fix has not made it to the releases yet.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libsoup/-/issues/308

> Connection failures right and left.  I manage 8 email addresses. 4
> Google workspace address, 2 Google free gmail address and 2 MS office
> online addresses.  All 8 use Oauth2 to authenticate via IMAP.   At
> the moment, 3 of google address won't authenticate ( 2 paid, 1 free)
> and 1 of the MS accounts also fails.

Hm.  I have 1 IMAP, 2 GMail (1 company 1 private), and 1 Exchange and
all work properly for me.

> When it works Flatpak is a nice tool, a much better alternative than
> trying build Evolution from scratch or running the distro version
> which is on 3.36.5

I just want to make clear that the above issues are not due to
_flatpak_ as a technology (at least there's no proof of that).  They
are due to issues in Evolution 3.46 (or libraries it uses like
libsoup).

IOW, if you had Evolution 3.46 installed natively on your system, not
via flatpak, you'd almost certainly see the same issues.  Flatpak
won't, unfortunately, fix bugs in software it packages :).

The nice thing about flatpak is it's quite simple to install an older
version (e.g., Evolution 3.44) if that's helpful to you.  If you're
seeing crashes that often you may well want to downgrade until the
libsoup issue is resolved in a flatpak.