Goodbye for now, kmail

[ianseeks]

On Saturday, 6 May 2017 10:20:54 BST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> 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.

I am grasping at straws here as Dan seems to work without issues and there are 
a fair few here that don't.  I was more or less asking if there was a 
reference list of a clean working install that we could use ourselves to see 
if we have messed up our own systems.  I know i've messed up my downloads by 
using a wrong repo in the past so i could have easily messed it all up myself. 
I guess i should perhaps wipe my machine and reinstall from scratch and 
backups to see if it cures the problems.
 
> > > 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,


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