[Evolution-users] Odd double-paste with middle mouse button? Obsolete versions

[rsbrux]

Ubuntu Studio 24.04.1 LTS also provides only Evolution 3.52.x.
In order to get Evolution 3.56.x I installed the flatpak version.
However, I don't necessarily recommend it, because Evolution has now for the second time lost my data and acts as if I am using it for the first time ("Welcome to Evolution"). Fortunately I can restore most of it from backup, but I will have to reissue application-specific passwords for some accounts.
I am wondering whether I would be better off with the "native" installation, even though it is a few versions behind.  Would it even be possible to backport my data files from 3.56.x, or is there likely to be some incompatibility with the earlier version?
Sent from my iPad

> On 30 Jun 2025, at 18:28, Milan Crha via evolution-users <evolution-users at lists.osuosl.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 18:11 +0200, Kevin Zembower wrote:
>> I'll just put up with the annoyance of this bug until Ubuntu updates
>> and fixes it.
> 
>    Hi,
> I agree, building Evolution it tricky, to say the least. Its main
> "disadvantage" (in compare to for example Thunderbird) is the
> dependency on the evolution-data-server and the more on the same
> version of it as the Evolution itself is. The evolution-data-server is
> shared with other applications, which makes it hard to update in the
> stable releases (there are sometimes involved API changes, rebuild of
> all the dependencies is needed).
> 
> I do not use Ubuntu myself, but for the reasons above I believe it's
> the same as with Fedora, where one version of the system never updates
> other than the point release versions of the evolution(-data-server).
> That is:
> 
>  Fedora 40 contains Evolution 3.52.x
>  Fedora 41 contains Evolution 3.54.x
>  Fedora 42 contains Evolution 3.56.x
> 
> and so on. To get Evolution 3.56.x you need to use the system which
> provides it, aka you'd need to upgrade to a newer Ubuntu. Or downgrade
> WebKitGTK to a version lower than 2.46.1, with the consequences (they
> receive a lot of CVE fixes, where some may apply to the way Evolution
> uses the WebKitGTK). The WebKitGTK is also a shared library, multiple
> applications can depend on it, thus you need to be careful if
> downgrading it, because it can be risky.
> 
>    Bye,
>    Milan
> 
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