[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Enigmail in Wheezy-LTS

[Guido Günther]

Hi dkg,
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 10:30:00AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hi Guido--
> 
> On Fri 2016-05-27 07:16:40 -0400, Guido Günther wrote:
> > I'm currently looking into updating Icedove in Wheezy-LTS to the esr
> > version 45[1].
> 
> thanks for your work on this!
> 
> > Since Enigmail is a often used extension I wanted to update this to a
> > compatible version as well (as was done with prior ESR releases).
> 
> sounds reasonable.
> 
> > Looking at 1.9 in sid it requires gnupg2. I justed wanted to check with
> > you that you deem the Wheezy version sufficient or if you expect any
> > latent bugs?
> >
> > I've tested enigmail with wheezy's gpg2 and didn't spot any obvious
> > errors.
> 
> I believe that the version of gnupg2 in wheezy should work ok with
> Wheezy.  I'm unaware of any incompatibilities.

I opted for just rebuilding the existing enigmail 1.8.2 in wheezy with a
fixed mozilla-devscripts (which does not create an errornoues Breaks:)
instead of updating to 1.9.3 so we cause as little upgrade problems as
possible. 1.8.2 seems to work just as well with icedove 45.

Cheers,
 -- Guido