Hello Cyril, On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 10:50:55PM +0200, Cyril Chaboisseau wrote: > I've been fighting to understand why icedove was crashing on me (either > segfaults or with bus error) for both versions 38 and 44,
sounds strange. Can you please create a backtrace of such crashes? https://wiki.debian.org/Icedove#Debugging Before deciding what to do next it would be interesting to see where the crashes happen. > after finally > discovering that Firefox extension foxyproxy 4.5.6 was causing the > crashes > > see bug #815000 > > if the problem cannot be solved (from what I understand after a quick > look at the upstream bug report), that needs to be dealt in the icedove > package to prevent others from having both packages installed alongside > > foxyproxy 4.5.6 is already in testing since 31 March, and I fear that > many Debian users who have both programs don't understand at first > glance that the instability comes from this bad interaction > > please, add a tag to put xul-ext-foxyproxy-standard in conflict with > icedove (at least with this specific version if you think that it will > be solved in an upcoming release) A crash is definitely a bug and have to be fixed, so it wouldn't be the right thing to "fix" such a issue by adding a conflicts line. For now we have to figure out where and why Icedove is crashing. Regards Carsten
