[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#909000: Enigmail 2.0 needed in Stretch after Thunderbird 60 upload

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Mon 2018-10-08 16:05:39 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote:

>> In the meantime, for enigmail, i've pushed a debian/stretch branch into
>> salsa with commit id b6e978d64af1defdfed876b09c8a57acb796ad72 as
>
> Did you push? I can't find the id. I would like to test.

thanks for testing! it appears that i failed to push earlier, but it
should now be pushed to salsa.

> Btw. having it in bpo9 would be very good. I know, that this is abuse of
> backports. But whatever we do, it's better than letting users install
> via "Add-ones Manager".

the trouble with putting the updated enigmail in bpo9 is that it depends
on the fixes for GnuPG (see #910398) -- it will fail in pretty nasty
(and sometimes subtle) ways unless and until those changes are
available.  I'd love to hear other suggestions for how to do this, but i
don't see any better options than the approach outlined here,
unfortunately.  I'd be thrilled if someone else has a better approach.

        --dkg