[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#696884: enigmail 1.5 is available upstream

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 12/29/2012 05:44 AM, Willi Mann wrote:
> Uploaded.

Thanks, that was fast!

> I'm using a git repository that is currently not published anywhere.
> It would not be a problem to publish it. However, the current
> situation for creating the "orig" tarball is a mess because I rely on
> a bazaar repo from the Ubuntu mozilla maintainers that contains the
> stripped down sources of Thunderbird to build enigmail and a
> self-written script to merge in the enigmail sources. There is also a
> d/rules target left from the Ubuntu people. Unfortunately this target
> does not verify the authenticity of the enigmail tarball but deletes
> it immediately, so I created my own script and check the authenticity
> manually (I did not remove that target because it would add further
> differences as compared to the Ubuntu version)
> 
> Additionally, there is no guarantee that what the Ubuntu repo contains
> really builds. For icedove 17, what the repo contained did not build
> and needed a patch.

This all sounds like we're not really representing the upstream source
properly for this package, unfortunately :(  I agree that this is a
sticky problem (i've tried to understand the enigmail debian packaging
before this myself), though, and i'm not claiming i have a good solution
to offer).

> I hope that this situation changes when we move to an icedove version
> that allows enigmail to work without any further binary components -
> that's one of the reasons why I have not invested time to make this
> situation more collaboration-friendly, another one is that nobody
> showed interest in collaborating.

I'm showing an interest, though i don't have a lot of time.  I'd love to
see the need for this extra wrapper go away fast, but we have several
months (at least) before we can count on icedove 19 being available for
everyone, and we still want to maintain older versions even after that.
 Once we've got icedove 19, we should be able to build with a clean
upstream tarball and just icedove-dev, right?

But while we're still trying to support some flavors of icedove earlier
than 19 (and for the sake of any of our users who want to replicate the
process and consider the changes cleanly), we should document what we've
got.

Would you be up for publishing the repository?  I've set up:

  git.debian.org:/git/pkg-mozext/enigmail.git

If you want to apply for membership to the pkg-mozext group on alioth,
you should be able to push to it:

  https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-mozext/

thanks for your work on engimail in debian!

Regards,

	--dkg

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