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Bug#806176: jessie-pu: package gnome-gmail/1.8.3-1



On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 20:52:56 -0500, Dave Steele wrote:

> Per 805926, gnome-gmail is broken on Jessie due to a lack of support
> for OAuth2, and a reliance on GNOME 2 for configuration data. I went
> through the exercise of crafting a minimal upgrade to address these
> two issues, and have come to the conclusion that it makes more sense
> to backport July's 1.9.3-1 release instead.
> 
> Basing the stable release on 1.9.3 adds other changes that make sense in stable:
> 
>  - Adapt to the changing levels of default mailer support required by
> LibreOffice
>  - Replace the partially-deprecated GMail IMAP extensions with the
> more robust/secure GMail API
>  - Improve the reverse-engineered GMail simple draft access URL
>  - Support for multiple GMail accounts
>  - Support for source tar signatures
>  - Support for additional languages
> 
> External repo access to GNOME Gmail 1.9.3 has been available for some
> time. I've tested this release against Jessie. There have been no
> problem reports from Jessie users.
> 
> https://davesteele.github.io/gnome-gmail/ppa.html
> 
> A diff of the changes is a bit problematic. An interactive compare is
> available at
> 
> https://github.com/davesteele/gnome-gmail/compare/debian/1.8.3-1...updates-jessie
> 
"problematic" is putting it nicely.  I don't think we're ready to accept
a complete rewrite as a stable update, sorry.

Cheers,
Julien

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