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 -- Sandro Knauß Software Developer Kolab Systems AG Zürich, Switzerland e: kna...@kolabsys.com t: +41 43 501 66 91 w: http://kolabsys.com pgp: CE81539E Sandro Knauß
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