Bug#272189: balsa: gmime + multipart/signed problems

[Andrew Lau]

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Package: balsa
Version: 2.2.4-1
Severity: serious

I've reported this bug [1] in order to give balsa-2.0.18-1 [2] currently
in testing-proposed-updates a chance of being distributed with Sarge
instead of balsa-2.2.4-1 until this can be fixed.

Cheers,
Andrew "Netsnipe" Lau

[1] http://lists.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2004-September/msg00026.html
[2] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/balsa/balsa_2.0.18-1_i386.deb

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Am 09.09.04 16:46 schrieb(en) Andrew Lau:
>Well after giving Balsa 2.2.4 a spin, I'm quite confident of letting a
>2.2 release propagate down into Debian Testing ("Sarge") and hopefully
>be mature enough to be released when "Sarge" goes stable.

At this point please let me remind you of the known but not yet fixed =20
gmime bug which *may* still break checking multipart/signed signatures if =
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the signed content is again a multipart. This is of course a bad =20
situation, as the user may get false broken signature warnings, making the =
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crypto features of balsa "feel" somewhat unreliable. I don't know if you =
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would build balsa with gpg(me) support, but I must admit that I would have =
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really mixed feelings if a semi-broken package (well, from the crypto =20
pov...) would go into debian, in particular as I can not do anything at =20
this point to fix the problem...

The other open gpg bug (support for multipart/signed and /encrypted in =20
imap mailboxes) is quite close to being resolved, btw.

>The popularity figures for Balsa are also quite interesting. Out of all
>users who have the popularity-contest package installed, 6.65% (435
>users) have Balsa installed which is not bad considering 27.27% of the
>sample population have the gnome-core package installed! That's nearly a
>quarter of all Debian GNOME users!

Cool! very interesting (and encouraging) information!

>If anyone has some free time, could someone please trawl through:

Ouch! Free time? Can someone explain what this means?!? ;-)

>PS: Is anyone going to update the contributors list in Balsa anytime
>soon? Someone like Albrecht Dre=DF should have been added to the list a
>long time ago. By the way, is anyone willing to give me CVS write access

I'ts great to hear that you recognise and like the work I've done, even if =
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I'm not in that list - I guess I don't have to explain how much time such =
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a project eats...

Cheers, Albrecht.


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