[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#975926: enigmail should not be shipped in bullseye

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 04:18:54PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 27.11.20 um 15:51 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> > On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:19:35 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Package: enigmail
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Tags: bullseye sid
> > > 
> > > It doesn't make sense to ship the enigmail migration wizard
> > > in bullseye.
> > 
> > why?
> 
> I understand that dropping the migration wizard in bookworm makes sense, but
> for the buster -> bullseye upgrade, it would definitely be good if the
> migration wizard is present.

By the time bullseye gets releases, this would be enigmail users using a 
1 year old Thunderbird on a system with (security) updates disabled.

> I saw #975975 (thanks for that), but we can't really be certain, that people
> always have the latest stable updates installed.

The instructions say the user has to be at the latest buster point 
release [1], and there have been cases where e.g. a bug in the kernel in 
stable was fixed to avoid a problem during upgrade to the next stable.

> Michael

cu
Adrian

[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#system-status