[Bug 22303] New: Evolution plugins ripped apart

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           Summary: Evolution plugins ripped apart
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: evolution
        AssignedTo: seb128 at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: Moritz.Schulte at ruhr-uni-bochum.de
         QAContact: desktop-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


I installed Evolution (on Breezy) and spent several hours on trying to figure
out why the spam filtering silently fails: Spamassassin is installed but marking
a message as spam in Evolution did not result in any modifications beneath
~/.spamassassin.  Finally I figured out what was wrong (after downloading the
evolution source package): evolution-plugins was not installed.

Splitting up on upstream package into several logical packages is fine, as long
as the user is INFORMED about this.  Because of shortcommings in the evolution
UI I had NO idea about missing plugins; especially since I was able to enable
spam filtering and all in the UI.  In such a situation, please either make the
main package (evolution) DEPEND on the sub-package (evolution-plugins) or make
the stripped package (evolution) inform the user about missing plugins.

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