Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
FYI, here's my current WIP patch to add Icedove. It's currently stuck on the same issue that Nils reported being stuck on, but it's based on our existing IceCat package and already includes most (maybe all?) of the Icedove rebranding and FSDG fixes from Parabola. This is currently based on core-u

WIP-packages (Was: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove)

2018-04-04 Thread Björn Höfling
On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:34:10 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Maybe one of you can post the current patch to guix-patches and people > can then work from there? (There’s already a few WIP patches at > https://bugs.gnu.org/guix-patches and I think it’s a fine way to let > people know

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-04 Thread Björn Höfling
On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 01:14:53 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > No promises, but I'll try to find time in the next few days to make an > attempt at an Icedove package. As de-facto maintainer of the IceCat > package in Guix, I suppose that I'm well-positioned to work on this, > and I certainly agree th

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-04 Thread Nils Gillmann
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes: > Hello, > > Björn Höfling skribis: > > > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:02:23 + > > Nils Gillmann wrote: > > > >> The patches would apply nowhere then, I'm sending a tarball of the > >> work. You can ignore the AGPL3 header, it's my default and for what I > >

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Björn Höfling skribis: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:02:23 + > Nils Gillmann wrote: > >> The patches would apply nowhere then, I'm sending a tarball of the >> work. You can ignore the AGPL3 header, it's my default and for what I >> upstream I relicense. >> >> This is Thunderbird 52.6.0, I

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Björn, Björn Höfling writes: > One of my key customers needs a new GNU/Linux installation and they are > willing to give GuixSD a try if Thunderbird is available. > > I thought that's no problem and was surprised to not find anything > like Icedove in the guix repository. I looked into this a

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 20:02:23 + Nils Gillmann wrote: > The patches would apply nowhere then, I'm sending a tarball of the > work. You can ignore the AGPL3 header, it's my default and for what I > upstream I relicense. > > This is Thunderbird 52.6.0, I fear that version newer than 54.x will > h

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Mark H Weaver transcribed 751 bytes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: > >> Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary > >> Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list? > > > > No. It just exists in a branch in an (experimental, fl

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Nils Gillmann writes: > Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: >> Did someone tell you that you shouldn't post a preliminary >> Thunderbird/Icedove package definition to this mailing list? > > No. It just exists in a branch in an (experimental, fluid) repository where > other nonfree software (par

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Mark H Weaver transcribed 1.3K bytes: > Hi Nils, > > Nils Gillmann writes: > > > Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > > > >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have > >> more-or-less ready snippets available? > > > > I can not post the link to straight-out of

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Nils, Nils Gillmann writes: > Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > >> Are there any more recent news on the Thunderbird side? Does anyone have >> more-or-less ready snippets available? > > I can not post the link to straight-out of the box Thunderbird here > (current repository is against

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Björn Höfling transcribed 1.2K bytes: > One of my key customers needs a new GNU/Linux installation and they are > willing to give GuixSD a try if Thunderbird is available. > > I thought that's no problem and was surprised to not find anything > like Icedove in the guix repository. > > I found two

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Nils Gillmann
Rene transcribed 1.2K bytes: > Hello, > > GNOME Evolution is another graphical mail-reader; > currently it is not packaged, but the important part is that it requires the > evolution-data-server service that does not exist either. > > See more: > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution I'm confus

Re: Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Rene
Hello, GNOME Evolution is another graphical mail-reader; currently it is not packaged, but the important part is that it requires the evolution-data-server service that does not exist either. See more: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution

Looking for Thunderbird/Icedove

2018-04-03 Thread Björn Höfling
One of my key customers needs a new GNU/Linux installation and they are willing to give GuixSD a try if Thunderbird is available. I thought that's no problem and was surprised to not find anything like Icedove in the guix repository. I found two references on the net, but both are negative: http