Evolution shows no alarm / notification for birthdays in local contacts

Bug #58540 reported by flix
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evolution
Fix Released
Wishlist
evolution (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Evolution does not show an alarm for birthdays, although it is configured to do so (Calender Settings -> alarms -> Birthdays in contacts is activated)

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Dean Sas (dsas)
Changed in evolution:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Changed in evolution:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for the bug and the upstream pointer

Changed in evolution:
importance: Untriaged → Low
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Skeletonix (tomaskloucek) wrote :

yes, I have the same problem !

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egiceme (egiceme) wrote :

I was able to fix this error by going to Calender Settings -> alarms and unticking and ticking back each of calendar.

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Manalive (thursday-manalive) wrote :

Same here, I have tried ticking and unticking just about everything. The dates in addressbook (birthdays and anniversarys) do not show up in the calendar.

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Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote : [gutsy] Evolution shows no alarm / notification for birthdays in local contacts

I have same issue with gutsy accept "ticking and unticking" not helping. It worked well on fiesty.

Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in evolution:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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clovepower (mzattera) wrote :

Seems to be a duplicate of

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/246251

But could not mark at such.

Changed in evolution:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

This has been fixed upstream, thanks for reporting.

Changed in evolution:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package evolution - 2.25.90-0ubuntu1

---------------
evolution (2.25.90-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (LP: #320329)
   - Fixes: evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in g_signal_emit_valist()
     (LP: #210506)
   - Fixes: Evolution shows no alarm / notification for birthdays
     in local contacts (LP: #58540)
   - Fixes: forwarding mail using filters (WISH LIST) (LP: #160324)
   - And many more in GNOME Bugzilla.
  * debian/control:
   - Bump Build-Depends on evolution-data-server-dev (>= 2.25.5),
     libglib2.0-dev to (>= 2.18), libgtk2.0-dev to (>= 2.14.0),
     libgtkhtml3.14-dev to (>= 3.25.4).
   - Add Build-Depends on libgweather-dev (>= 2.25.3)
   - Remove mark-calander-offline from evolution-plugins description
     as it is now in the standard options.
  * debian/evolution-plugins.intall:
   - Remove mark-calander-offline from evolution-plugins as it is now
     in the standard options.
  * debian/patches/04_autoconf.patch:
    - new version update

 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:25:24 -0500

Changed in evolution:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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NoOp (glgxg) wrote :

That 'Fix Released' only applies to a 'yet to be released' version of Ubuntu - Jaunty. Meaning that this bug will not show up as a standard search in launchpad unless an advanced search option is used.

Please reset the status as Confirmed & advise when a fix will be available for 'released' versions of Ubuntu: Hardy and Intrepid.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bugs are closed when fixed in the current version backport tasks can be opened if required

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NoOp (glgxg) wrote :

Then would "Target to release" be appropriate?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status
<quote>
Fix Released:

    * For a bug task about upstream projects: a release tarball was announced and is publicly available
    * For package maintainers, a fix was uploaded to an official Ubuntu repository
          o This does not include -proposed i.e. hardy-proposed
          o Please don't hesitate to add a changelog as a comment, so people know what to look out for
    * If a bug is fixed in the current development branch, that is good enough for Fix Released. If the bug also needs to be fixed in a stable release, use the "Target to release" link to nominate it for that release.
</quote>

I am unfamiliar with how to do that, or even if it is appropriate. However this issue/bug still remains unfixed in _current released versions of Ubuntu_, so I am confused as to how/why it should be backported rather than fixed. Aren't backports typically new features rather than fixes to existing packages?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

did you read what you quoted? "a fix was uploaded to an official Ubuntu repository", the fix has been uploaded to jaunty which is the current version and used by thousand of people, the change can be backported to stables version then if required

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

looking to the change again it's non trivial and has user interfaces change, not sure it's a candidate for a stable update

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NoOp (glgxg) wrote : Re: [Bug 58540] Re: Evolution shows no alarm / notification for birthdays in local contacts

On 03/19/2009 01:54 AM, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> did you read what you quoted? "a fix was uploaded to an official Ubuntu
> repository", the fix has been uploaded to jaunty which is the current
> version and used by thousand of people, the change can be backported to
> stables version then if required
>

Yes I did, and I was asking about: "If the bug also needs to be fixed in
a stable release, use the "Target to release" link to nominate it for
that release." Is there a problem with that?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

there is no problem but that's not what you asked before when you suggested it was not fixed in the current ubuntu version

Changed in evolution:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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