Hi,

I'd like to share my opinions about the way of treating this (there are
other too) issue.

1. Sure the bug is upstream. the fact is, thet Gnome team did not treat
this at all (status UNCONFIRMED as of 13.11.2008) even if the bug has
been firstly submitted 28.09.2008

2. The severity of this concrete bug is high, makes an email client
unusable in corporate environment with Kerberos infrastructure deployed.

3. As an end user (or as system adminitrator) i don't care where the bug
is, "upstream" is just not enough of an excuse to ignore this in a
stable Ubuntu release

4. As a result Intrepid Ibex 8.10 is not usable in corporate
environment. This is a problem, as my understanding is the one of the
main goals of Canonical is to penetrate more especially this market
segment.

This concrete bug has been reported when Ibex still in Beta stage. There
were several ways to fix this and avoid releasing yet another "stable"
release with known severe bugs.

- find and updated/corrected version in gnome if available and backport to 
Intrepid repos
- fix this by yourself (ubuntu team) and commit patch upstream (if they accept 
it)
- downgrade the package evolution + dependencies in Intrepid

all this can be done by system administrator himself, but surely you
agree it's not a way to go when deploying widely in corporate
environment.

Thank You,

Martin Simovic
Systems administrator
Concurrent Thinking Ltd.

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