Comment 26 for bug 90258

To Elias:

I have to agree with Sebastien. There is a possibility to get it to work (renaming/deleting libecalbackendcontacts.so), with the problem, that it breaks the birthday-notification feature of evolution, which, if this was a default behavior of the Ubuntu-Package, would cause another bug-report of people, who are using this feature on a single-user-system (maybe one of the most common scenarios).

The code of e-d-s is a bit to complex to fix it "by the way" (or can you do it?). This is not a Ubuntu-Specific bug, every distribution which is using latest e-d-s is affected, so the issue has to be fixed upstream. Upstream is doing a lot of code-cleanups and code-review at the moment, so even a bug marked with the priority "major" is not fixed from one day to another (especially, like Sebastien mentioned before, there are only a few persons working on it).

Marking this bug with priority "high" would not change anything, as long as noone is contributing a piece of code or a bounty to get it fixed. I can understand you to be annoyed by this specific bug (as I was and as I am), but there will always be things that are not working "out of the box" as expected, because you cannot write 100% bug-free software and/or the author of a piece of code cannot test it on all possible combinations of soft- and hardware.