Bug#909007: stretch-pu: package firetray/0.6.1+dfsg-1
On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 22:44 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> 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.
It sounds fine, as long as it's uploaded in time.
> And wrt the future: some people went angry about Thunderbird breaking
> extensions again and again, and made https://github.com/gyunaev/birdt
> ray
> Obviously, it's not an option for Stretch, but there's hope we'll
> avoid this
> unpleasantness for Buster.
Fingers crossed...
Regards,
Adam
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