Re: jessie: enigmail breaks (?) icedove
On 2013-10-31 20:44 +0100, Matej Kosik wrote:
> I have recently noticed that it is no longer possible to install
> enigmail from Debian (Jessie) repositories without uninstalling
> icedove.
> Aptitude reports:
>
> "enigmail breaks icedove"
>
> This is puzzling because enigmail without icedove is not useful.
I tend to agree, but it is possible to use it with iceape instead. Not
that I would recommend that, the iceape package is horribly outdated and
ought to be removed, at least from testing.
> My workaround is to install enigmail through that *.xpi provided by
> mozilla, but that is exactly what I do not normally want to do
> (use some random semi-package-managers people tend to invent)
>
> My question is, what happened with the enigmail package?
> Does it behave as expected (and is it somehow useful without icedove) or is it broken and a bugreport has to be filed?
It's broken, see http://bugs.debian.org/726517.
> Thanks in advance for any good advice.
Install the enigmail version from unstable (I assume you do not use
kfreebsd so are unaffected by the above bug).
Cheers,
Sven
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