evolution doesn't ask when quitting(from file>quit) with open messages

[Pablo Rodríguez]

Binary package hint: evolution

I have just switched to Ubuntu 10.04 (from openSUSE-11.1) and I experience a weird bug with evolution-2.28.3-0ubuntu9.

When opening a new message and not closing it, if I quit the program, evolution won't ask whether I would like to save the message or not. Next time I restart evolution, a warning appears if I want to recover the previous message.

The bug is easily reproducible: compose a new message, quit evolution without sending or closing the message window, start evolution again.

Could you please check and fix this?

Thanks for your help,

Pablo

[Pablo Rodríguez (ousia)]

Thanks your help, Sebastien.

I'm new to Ubuntu, but I'm not new to Linux (and FLOSS) and I wonder why the importance is not normal.

Evolution should prompt the user when exiting with unfinished messages, as any other application does. I have been using evolution for seven years and this is the first time it doesn't do what it must.

It is an important bug, since the recovery option is actually designed for crashes and it doesn't save the whole message (at least not always).

Do you really think that the importance should not be set to normal at least?

Thanks for your help,

Pablo

[Pablo Rodríguez (ousia)]

As you can see in the attached bug report, it seems to be a bug when quitting evolution with unfinished messages that crashes the program, but since Ubuntu 10.04 doesn't provide Bug Buddy, the user doesn't notice that the program crashed.

In order to be able to check this I had to download the latest stable releases from Mandriva and openSUSE and run them live.

I hope it helps,

Pablo

[Pablo Rodríguez (ousia)]

The bug has been fixed upstream (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617557).

Would anyone be so kind to apply the patch (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=161658) to evolution-2.28 in Ubuntu 10.04?

Thanks for your help,

Pablo

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

evolution 2.30 is in Maverick now.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marking triaged as someone upstream found a way to reproduce this.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

This bug will be fixed in evolution 2.30.2 and 2.31.4 should I mark it 'fix committed' ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.30.2-0ubuntu1

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evolution (2.30.2-0ubuntu1) maverick; urgency=low

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    - New folder window is not in focus in filter dialog (Milan Crha)
    - Allow setting alarms on any meeting (Jim Ramsay) (LP: #528557)
    - Reopened drafts shouldn't ask for save without change
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    - Can't drag and drop multiple attachments (Matthew Barnes)
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    - Don't display attachment size if it's unknown (Matthew Barnes)
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    - Cr...