Evolution icon remains after program is uninstalled

[Leo]

Binary package hint: evolution

I have uninstalled Evolution but still there was an icon left at the "Office" menu.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evolution (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 24 19:34:33 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you probably didn't uninstall evolution-common to clean the entry

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the menu entry is in the evolution-common binary which is a known bug

[Leo (leorolla)]

Thank you for clearing. I will keep searching for the original bug and then mark this one duplicate.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

don't reopen the bug it's a duplicate

[Leo (leorolla)]

Hi Sebastien,
Thank you for explaining that the icon is from evolution-common, who does not provide the binaries for opening the menu entry and therefore leaves the icon malfuctioning.
I did all the efforts to find the duplicate about this behavior and I couldn't.
Since it is not "invalid", we can leave it "confirmed" until you or me or someone else marks it "duplicated".

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you stop reopening this bug, it's a duplicate and there is no point to keep hundred of duplicates open just for the sake of it, it create noise in bug lists and make work slower for everybody

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can change it to an user question if you prefer though but arguing over how the bug is closed doesn't make sense

[Leo (leorolla)]

We can stop creating noise in the bug mailing list by properly marking the bug as duplicate of another bug with the same root cause.

I don't see why it is a duplicate.

I saw Bug #30692 which questions why Evolution should have 2 different icons in 2 different menus, and the issue was assigned to the Design team who will finally decide whether it will be better with 2 different icons or not.

What this report is about is that *evolution-common package creates an icon without providing the binary the icon points to*.

It's not the same bug. It's different.

Whether or not Evolution will create 2 icons, it should be *evolution* that creates the icon and not *evolution-common*.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could you stop playing that stupid reopening bugs game now?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the fact that you didn't find the other bugs about the issue doesn't mean it's not a duplicate, you are wasting everybody time and will not make anybody consider your bug by playing useless games with bug settings

[Leo (leorolla)]

I see... Being "invalid" prevents mail from being sent over.

I am a user who volunteers in reporting Ubuntu misbehavior, from papercuts like broken icons to critical bugs.

It seem that https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage/ actually has less value than unwritten rules, like a maintainer claiming tha a bug is duplicate without point out the duplicate report, without giving any explanation whatsoever, just based on their authority, and ultimately insulting the volunteer users who disagree with their triage.

Nice way to keep down the open bug counter.

[Leo (leorolla)]

Invalid:

    * This status should be used when the bug report does not contain adequate information to determine whether or not it is a bug even if it is resolved for the reporter
    * This should also be used if the reported problem is not a bug at all, but for example user error
    * It should be used conservatively as bugs marked as Invalid no longer show up in default searches
    * Be sure to triple-check a bug before you invalidate it

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is not a counter one, is that you either spend days looking for numbers to be able to close duplicate, or you keep those the way they are and have a buglist you can't use because it's so noisy with known duplicates or you close those and work on getting issues resolved rather than spending time looking for numbers

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #553733 is one of the duplicates

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

bug #118898

[Leo (leorolla)]

Thanks for effectively answering to the bug report.

(Together with extra off-topic information, and not-so-polite, but I don't mind at all. It's Ubuntu that asks you to be polite, I just ask you not to insult users.)

I'm marking it duplicate of Bug #118898 as it is indeed the case.

Bug #553733 is genuinely different and is not an Evolution bug. I will work on it...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the "not-so-polite" is rather due to your non constructive behaviour, next time better to spend your time looking for the bug number you want rather than playing reopen on a duplicate bug