enigmail will break with TB upgrade

[Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@orangeseeds.org>]

So one problem we have with maintaining the post-XUL programs like
Thunderbird and Firefox is not only backporting the build toolchain, but
also the leaf dependencies.

Enigmail, for example, is broken since Thunderbird 60 landed in stretch:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909000

Fixing this in stretch will be a significant challenge, let alone in
jessie. I wonder how we want to approach this.

Presumably, Emilio, while working on Firefox, would also backport the
toolchain necessary for Thunderbird, is that correct?

Enigmail's work, then, might be better targeted at helping the folks in
stretch, although I do wonder how we could possibly upgrade GnuPG 2
(required to get a new version of Enigmail compatible with TB 60) in
jessie without causing all sorts of unrelated trouble. Keep in mind that
Jessie still runs the old 2.0 release instead of the (recommended) 2.1
(stretch) or 2.2 (buster) releases.

So before anyone jumps both feet into patching enigmail for whatever
issues are pending there, this should be taken into account.

A.

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