Re: updates on the gnupg/enigmail/thunderbird/firefox situation
On 2018-11-11 13:21:05, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> Hi Antoine,
>
> On 09/11/2018 20:37, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> On 2018-11-05 16:26:44, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On 30/10/2018 16:46, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>>>> Which brings us to Thunderbird (and Firefox) themselves. The last I
>>>> heard of this is that LLVM was NEW in jessie. I wrote Emilio to see if
>>>> he needed help on that last week, but haven't got a response. Hopefully
>>>> all that work will come to fruitition synchronously in a grand fanfare
>>>> of uploads all working out perfectly in the end. :)
>>>
>>> Sorry if I missed your mail. Anyway, here's an update:
>>>
>>> LLVM (and the necessary deps) were accepted. Unfortunately I run into some
>>> trouble while bootstrapping rustc and cargo. I tried some different ways and
>>> finally fixed the first one (bootstrap using upstream binaries). I am uploading
>>> the packages now and will follow up with firefox/thunderbird if all goes well.
>>
>> Just so I see how fast I should be moving on Enigmail, when do you plan
>> on uploading Thunderbird?
>
> The update is ready, and the blocker was an update to stretch, which has already
> happen. So I believe we are ready, and this could happen anytime now.
>
> However since we don't have a working enigmail, should we delay the update until
> we do? Given the security issues in thunderbird and the fact that the new
> version has a Breaks on the old enigmail, I would say that we can go ahead with
> thunderbird, and enigmail can be fixed asynchronously. However if the update is
> not too far ahead, we could also delay this a bit longer.
>
> Thoughts?
I think we could manage a resolution with Enigmail soon enough, and
considering how fast those updates were deployed on stretch, i don't
know if we have a reasonable excuse to delay those in jessie.
A.
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