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

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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On 15.07.13 20:50, 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.

The biggest problem you have is that Iceape 2.7.x is based on Gecko
10, while Icedove 17.0.x is based on Gecko 17.

Given that for Gecko version < 19, a binary Gecko-version-specific
component is required for Enigmail, the  only way I can see to fix
this is by having two Enigmail packages -- one for Iceape and one for
Icedove.

As of Gecko 19, Enigmail only requires a small C-library that does not
depend on Mozilla code anymore.

- -Patrick
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