Oh, ok. Makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Carsten Schönert <c.schoen...@t-online.de>wrote: > Hello Steaphan, > > Am 18.02.2014 23:10, schrieb Steaphan Greene: > > Note, despite the above stated belief, this is still *not* fixed as of > > current wheezy+updates. > > that is not difficult to make it clear, obviously. > > The release team only allows security related fixes for the current > version 17.0.10 in stable-security. By this the patch is "only" applied > to the versions in testing and not stable-security. > But we work hardly on the current 24.3.0 version to get it into testing > and finally to stable-security. But this will need some more time. > > > > > The above-mentioned patch is still required to make icedove usable in > > sawfish on large displays. > > > > I just confirmed this patch still applied cleanly, and allowed me to > > build a working icedove_17.0.10-1~deb7u1 package. > > Fine! Otherwise this would require a backport release. But with a > version 24.3.0 in starting we don't want to make such a backport for > this short time. We fighted the last time a not so simple issue with > needed libraries and symbols for other packages that depended on Icedove. > > -- > Regards > Carsten >
