On Tue 2019-01-22 14:44:50 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > I'm not sure we should remove *both* enigmail and thunderbird from > jessie. I understand there are problems with the a.m.o version, but then > that's somewhat outside of scope of LTS. It would seem rather unfair for > users of thunderbird that do *not* use enigmail to have their favorite > email client yanked away from them because a third-party plugin fails to > be maintainer correctly. > > Right now I'm leaning towards completely dropping support from Enigmail > in jessie, since the changes required are too far ranging to be > comfortable.
I've yet to hear a specific concern about a known failure that derives from the backporting work that anarcat did. I know of several concrete failures that will result from users of Jessie pulling enigmail from a.m.o. telling jessie users that they should pull from a.m.o. is effectively doing them a disservice, if they think they're being supported. If i was responsible for maintaining jessie, i'd prefer to go the route of the backported fixes, but i don't have the capacity to spend a lot of time on jessie itself, so i guess my preferences should be weighed accordingly. --dkg
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