Control: affects 869774 + thunderbird
Control: retitle 869774 thunderbird 52 needs enigmail 1.9.8.1 or later
Control: forwarded 869774 https://sourceforge.net/p/enigmail/bugs/687/
Hi there--
On Thu 2017-07-27 12:42:26 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> After a short look at [1] there seem to be problems with Thunderbird 52
> left in the enigmail 1.9.7 in Debian 9, that are either fixed in 1.9.8.1
> in Debian unstable or might even require further upstream fixes.
>
> Is your problem fixed when you install the 2:1.9.8.1-1 package from unstable?
I can confirm that enigmail 2:1.9.8.1-1 (from debian testing) installs
successfully on jessie and that it appears to fix the underlying
problem.
I can also confirm that upstream doesn't expect enigmail 1.8.x to work
with thunderbird 52.
I'm looking into creating a patch for enigmail 1.9.8.1-1 on jessie, and
will also look into such an update for stretch.
I think this could have been avoided if the newer version of thunderbird
had been marked as "Breaks: enigmail < 1.9.8" or something similar,
though it's not clear how the t-bird maintainers are supposed to know
that sort of information about every possible extension. Perhaps
enigmail needs to be special cased since it seems to have more of a
history of this kind of problem?
--dkg
