On Tue, 2018-10-23 at 10:35 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > The fact that the upstream-supported version of enigmail that works > with the upcoming stretch version of thunderbird depends on these > fixes is, as you say, another reason to suggest inclusion in debian > stretch.
>From discussions elsewhere, I understand that the "raw" upstream enigmail - i.e. installed via upstream's addons service - is actually already compatible with the new Thunderbird version, and the problem only affects the Debian packages - is that correct? (Specifically, upstream includes some kind of compatibility shim, which is not shipped in our packages for DFSG reasons.) > > It's also going to need a d-i sign-off, because gnupg produces a > > udeb. > > I've added debian-boot@lists.debian.org in the hopes that someone > from there can supply a d-i sign-off. Explicitly CCing KiBi is generally more effective, as -boot@ is a fairly busy list at times. I imagine he'll want the SRM review completed first, but that also depends on whether the changes actually impact d-i's usage, which I'm not entirely clear on - could you provide any insight there? Regards, Adam
