Evolution: Migrate to People API to retain programmatic access to Google Contacts.

[Guy Rouillier]

I'm running Ubuntu MATE 20.04; I stick with LTS for this system. I use Evolution for email and calendar. Tonight I got this message:

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Failed to connect address book “<email address hidden> : Contacts”

Invalid request URI or header, or unsupported nonstandard parameter: Contacts API is being deprecated. Migrate to People API to retain programmatic access to Google Contacts. See https://developers.google.com/people/contacts-api-migration.
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I went to report this on the GNOME bug tracker and found this existing issue:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution/-/issues/1655

That issue was closed with this comment:
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"Andre Klapper

    Issue found on latest Evolution in Debian 11 (3.38.3-1)

That version is ancient and not maintained anymore by GNOME developers. Feel free to file a bug report in your distribution's issue tracker."

The version in MATE is even older: 3.36.5-0ubuntu1

So apparently Evolution in MATE is currently not functional. We need to update to a later release. I will update to the newer LTS of MATE when it is released.
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.21
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-05 (1212 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
Package: evolution-data-server
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-92.103-generic 5.4.157
Tags: third-party-packages focal
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-92-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-17 (622 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Please run

apport-collect 1959473

[Norbert (nrbrtx)]

Probably you can try Flatpak version of Evolution from https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Evolution as a workaround.

[Guy Rouillier (guy-rouillier)]

apport information

[Guy Rouillier (guy-rouillier)]

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[Guy Rouillier (guy-rouillier)]

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[Guy Rouillier (guy-rouillier)]

Norbert, thank you for the quick response. I'm very impressed with apport automatically updating this bug report with requested info!

I will try the FlatPak version when I have some time, since the next LTS release isn't until April 2022.

[Christopher Beland (cbeland)]

This seems to be the same as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/1952107

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.