control: severity -1 grave thanks This patch should be included as it fixes a critical bug in kdelibs which renders Kontact unable to show user data. The data is actually there, but not visible or accessible to the user, and therefore is often perceived as a data loss issue.
The patch itself is small (-11/+5 lines), contained entirely in private code
in the affected library, and comes with a unit test to ensure quality.
There is a pending upstream review request to include it upstream which has
gone unanswered thus far:
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120119/
We are unsure when it will land upstream due to this lack of attention to the
request, but the bug it fixes continues to affect users.
So despite waiting for upstream response, it is already being packaged in
Fedora packages as well as being shipped to large institutional users (at
least one of which uses a Debian OS as the desktop client) by downstream
companies such as Kolab Systems.
By including this well-tested and already deployed patch, Debian can ensure
that users relying on Kontact working well (among other KDE applications which
use this same functionality) will not need to go elsewhere (e.g. another
downstream) for a patched version of the kdelibs package.
Regads,
sandro
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