When writing a message, if selection doesn't contain beginning of the line, it's impossible to copy it using right click->copy because selection is lost

Binary package hint: evolution

Steps to reproduce :

1) write a new mail in Evolution
2) select part of one line
3) right click to show contextual menu

Expected result :

selection is kept and it is possible to choose "copy" from the menu

Actual result :

selection is lost

Note that if selection contains the beginning of the line it works.

I can reproduce it in plain text, html in Evolution 2.26 and 2.28

According to tests with upstream and Ubuntu users this seems to be Ubuntu specific.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 13 09:27:37 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: evolution 2.28.0-0ubuntu4 [modified: usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libemiscwidgets.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libeshell.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libetable.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libetext.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libetimezonedialog.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libeutil.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libevolution-a11y.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/libevolution-widgets-a11y.so.0.0.0 usr/lib/evolution/2.28/killev usr/lib/evolution/2.28/evolution-addressbook-export usr/lib/evolution/2.28/evolution-alarm-notify usr/lib/evolution/2.28/evolution-backup usr/bin/evolution]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:20871): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:21492): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:21479): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (gnome-panel:20891): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -3 and height 24