[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] [Enigmail] Enigmail in Debian

[Andy Ruddock]

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Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 02:37 PM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras wrote:
> 
>> I am using Debian Sid and icedove as my personal email programm
>> and I didn't install enigmail via repos but with icedove's
>> add-ons manager . Please describe in which branch of debian is
>> the problem ;)
> 
> This goes against the general recommendations of the enigmail team
> -- their suggestion is that you install icedove/thunderbird and
> enigmail from the same source; if you use your distro's version of
> the MUA, use your distro's version of the plugin; if you use the
> "upstream" binary distribution of the MUA, use the "upstream"
> binary distribution of the plugin.
> 
>> don't forget that debian has three branches branch 	    code
>> name ------------------------ stable    |  wheezy testing   |
>> jessie unstable  |  sid ------------------------
> 
> Andy's concern is about iceape (seamonkey) which is version
> 2.7.12-1 in all three active suites of debian (wheezy, jessie, and
> sid).
> 
> icedove is now at version 17.0.7 in wheezy (thanks to a security 
> update), and enigmail was updated to match the icedove version.
> However, iceape has not been similarly updated.  There appears to
> be less developer time spent on iceape than on the other mozilla
> variants :(
> 
> So Andy is right that there are versioning issues with enigmail in 
> wheezy if you try to use it with iceape.
> 
> As one of the members of the debian project who is trying to keep 
> enigmail functional in debian, i'm not sure what the answer is.
> We would love to continue to support enigmail for iceape as well
> as icedove, but i'm not sure what the right thing to do is.  if
> we're using the system-installed locations, i don't see how we can
> have the two versions of enigmail co-installable.
> 
> I'm cc'ing the mozilla extension packaging team on the e-mail to
> see if anyone has any suggestions for resolving this conflict in a
> healthy way.
> 
> Sorry to not have any more productive answers myself,
> 
> --dkg
> 

Thanks for the response. If there's anything I can do to help - I have
many years software development experience, mostly C/C++.

I used to rebuild/package Enigmail for Ubuntu during one of the
periods that it was left behind (there was no AMD64 build at the time).
I've been running Debian as my preferred distribution since Potato -
with a couple of forays into Ubuntu.

I've been using Iceape, or previous variants thereof, since it was
Netscape Communicator (I remember applying the fortify run-time
patches to beef up ssl) - my first archived e-mail purports to come
from Marc Andreessen, welcoming me to Netscape Communicator.


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