Goodbye for now, kmail

[Martin Steigerwald]

ianseeks - 06.05.17, 10:11:
> On Saturday, 6 May 2017 09:36:51 BST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > ianseeks - 06.05.17, 08:29:
> > > > This is the really annoying part: it all just works for me. I don't
> > > > know
> > > > what I'm doing wrong, but it just works. I can't reproduce many of the
> > > > misbehaviors and issues that users report and without that I can't fix
> > > > them. Believe me that it really annoys me and that I'd much rather had
> > > > the
> > > > most broken setup ever that I could just analyze and fix, but I guess
> > > > I'm
> > > > just too lucky (or unlucky, depends on the point of view :-))
> > > 
> > > Is there someway we can all check release levels are all consistent with
> > > all  the software required for KDEPIM?  It could be that all your pieces
> > > of
> > > software are correctly matched with each other whereas a lot of us just
> > > accept the upgrades and some of us may now have misaligned software
> > > releases
> > 
> > Well at least that one should be easy enough as Akonadi and KDEPIM has
> > same
> > version number on each release since quite some time.
> 
> I was thinking more of versions of individual bits of software within the
> major versions, all it takes is for one failed update of one small piece of
> software to perhaps cause an issue.  As Dan  is not able to reproduce a lot
> of issues, maybe we should be able to validate our installation against his
> to see if there are differences.

I don´t understand this one: If I made sure I have all packages below at 
basically the same major version, what can be out of sync?  At least on Debian 
if this is true, I don´t see how any smaller piece can be out of sync, unless 
the maintainers fail to grab the right source versions, which I believe is 
*highly* unlikely to happen.

> > On Debian I´d try
> > 
> > apt list | egrep "akonadi|kmail|kdepim-runtime"
> > 
> > and make sure that Akonadi packages, libakonadi packages, libkf5akonadi
> > packages as well as kdepim-runtime (containing the Akonadi resources for
> > KDEPIM like IMAP or maildir resource) and kmail package are all the the
> > same major version, i.e. currently 16.04. But if you can I suggest you
> > try to use a later version, cause 16.04 is older than a year already.
> > However for me this one works pretty stable except for the performance
> > related shortcomings.
> > 
> > Oh, BTW the folder has still not been moved.
> > 
> > Ciao,


-- 
Martin