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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: checkgmail: Actions not functional, old upstream dead since many years - working fork now available
- From: Daniel Andersson <sskraep@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 13:20:00 +0100
- Message-id: <20141207122000.28898.71515.reportbug@d-f05.rot.sgsnet.se>
Package: checkgmail
Version: 1.13+svn43-3
Severity: important
Tags: upstream patch
Dear Maintainer,
CheckGmail upstream on Sourceforge has been inactive for many years. The
program has been mended multiple times by passers-by contributing patches in
the SourceForge bug tracking system, without them being merged into the main
tree (though distributions have often applied them themselves).
Most critically, actions such as "Mark as read", "View fulltext", and in
general anything apart from passively viewing a short snippet of emails has
been broken for more than six months by now due to a change in the Gmail
request structure.
There are several forks available. As a regular user of this program for many
years, I have found the fork [1] by monojp at GitHub to be a good continuation
in the respect that it has resolved the updated Gmail request protocol issues
(which is critical for the functionality), but also continued development by
e.g. merging two-factor authentication support, extended mail handling
functionality and more.
If CheckGmail should continue to be a part of Debian, I propose that it should
use a working fork, with the suggestion of [1]. Otherwise I would propose for
it to be removed since it has not worked according to its specifications for a
long time.
(I marked this bug as "patch available" in reference to the working GitHub
project linked.)
[1]: https://github.com/monojp/checkgmail/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages checkgmail depends on:
ii libcrypt-blowfish-perl 2.14-1+b2
ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.58-1+b2
ii libfreezethaw-perl 0.5001-1
ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2492-3
ii libgtk2-trayicon-perl 0.06-2+b1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-1
ii libio-compress-perl 2.066-1
ii libwww-perl 6.08-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.20-1
ii perl [libio-compress-perl] 5.20.1-3
Versions of packages checkgmail recommends:
ii libcrypt-simple-perl 0.06-6
checkgmail suggests no packages.
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