Bug#909007: stretch-pu: package firetray/0.6.1+dfsg-1
On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + confirmed
>
> On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 13:09 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > I'm afraid that the security update of thunderbird from 52 to 60
> > broke firetray, which, despite being a mere "extension", includes
> > some quite essential functionality for thunderbird (described below).
>
> Apologies for the delay in getting back to you regarding this. The
> general response so far from the Security Team has been that they see
> these as stable issues, so let's go with fixing it via p-u. Please use
> the version suggested later in the thread, if the package is
> essentially a backport from unstable.
In the meantime, another upload of thunderbird broken the version check,
which was "up to 60.0". Turns out 60.2.1 does not match that anymore. :/
Details in #910973; no one from the maintainer team responded thus I
scheduled a NMU, it'll go in tomorrow evening.
Unlike the first patch which required quite large code changes, this is just
a version bump. I guess you have no problems with that, but stretch-pu bugs
are version-marked so we'd still need to coordinate on it.
And wrt the future: some people went angry about Thunderbird breaking
extensions again and again, and made https://github.com/gyunaev/birdtray
Obviously, it's not an option for Stretch, but there's hope we'll avoid this
unpleasantness for Buster.
Meow!
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