[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#789301: xul-ext-gcontactsync: Unable to sync contacts with app-specific password for Gmail with 2FA enabled

[L. Guruprasad]

Package: xul-ext-gcontactsync
Version: 1.0.0-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I have enabled 2 factor authentication on my Gmail account. Due to that, I
had to create a separate application-specific password for Thunderbird to be
able to access Gmail via IMAP and SMTP. But when I did that, gcontactsync
addon was no longer able to sync contacts. It complained that I had to be
logged in to sync contacts.

I uninstalled this package and installed the latest version from Mozilla
addons website - 2.0.5. I added my existing Gmail account to that and it
popped up the Gmail login page in a window and on login asked permission
to access and manage my contacts. Once that was done, it was able to sync
the contacts without any issues.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)