problem upgrading from offlineimap 6.3.4 to 6.6.1

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 06:00:58PM +0200, Ilias Tsitsimpis wrote:

> Control: tags -1 + patch
> 
> Hi François, Nicolas,

Hi,

> I have created a patch that hopefully will help here[1]. My plan is to
> include this to the next OfflineIMAP version in Debian, and state at the
> NEWS file that everyone who is upgrading from v6.3.4 should run
> 
>     $ offlineimap --verify-fmd5 || offlineimap --fix-fmd5
> 
> before the first use of the newer version.
> 
> Could you review this, and/or verify that this is working correctly?
> 
> [1] https://github.com/iliastsi/offlineimap/commit/8d07ec308e83665

>From a quick review, this looks fine for a merge. I didn't check the
validity of the algo, though.

> @nicolas: Do you believe this should be included in the mainline
> OfflineIMAP repository (i.e., do you believe this has any other use
> other than upgrading from v6.3.4)?

I'm in favor to get this merged ASAP, yes. I think distribution
maintainers should backport it to versions from v6.3.4 to v6.7.0-rc2
(the upcoming v6.7.0-rc3 should include the patches).

I guess this might be confusing or make bad things (including data loss)
if applied on mails that has moved from a folder to another one without
a full filename change because this might lead to UID conflicts.

-- 
Nicolas Sebrecht