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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