Control: severity -1 important
Hello Shevek,
if seen you have open a similar bug report against enigmail. Please
mention such similar bug reports also in the affecting package(s).
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 02:57:44PM +0200, Shevek Mandragou wrote:
> Package: thunderbird
> Version: 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
>
> Hi,
>
> the latest upgrade to thunderbird 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1 breaks the current
> oldstable enigmail package (2:1.8.2-4~deb8u1). Since there has not been
> any upgrades of the enigmail package lately, I assume that the source
> of the problem must be the thunderbird upgrade.
No, not directlly. Enigmail is a extension for Thunderbird and is hardly
depending on the internal API from Thunderbird, this API is mostly
changing with every new ESR version of Thunderbird.
But obviously we have not added a adjusted version of enigmail that
breaks thunderbird.
In short, the current available version of enigmail in jessie-security
is to old for Thunderbird. Thunderbird 52 is needing a version of 1.9.6 at
least.
> Detailed description:
> * When clicking on encrypted mails, thunderbird says "This is an
> * encrypted OpenPGP message. In order to decrypt this mail, you need to
> * install an OpenPGP add-on" although enigmail is installed and shows up
> * in the menu and in addons
> * Similiarly, the enigmail encryption symbol is shown (greyd-out) but no
> * longer works when writing mails
> * Enigmail settings can no longer be accessed via the menu only via
> * addons (clicking on menu and hovering over enigmail no longer shows a
> * submenu, clicking on enigmail -> preferences in the menu bar
> * Clicking on Enigmail buttons is no longer processed (yields no
> * results)
> * In Preferences -> Basic settings, the message beneath "Files and
> Directories" is "(error)". Since clicking on enigmail buttons is no
> longer processed, it is impossible to activate "Override with" to
> /usr/bin/gpg2 ("Ok" button does not work, "Browse" button does not work,
> "Display Expert Settings and Menus" does not work)
>
> Further info:
> * gpg and gpg2 exist (both in /usr/bin/) and both work flawlessly on the
> * command line
> * all current upgrades have been installed
> * I have been informed that the same error also occurs on at least one
> other system of a colleague with a debian standard install. Also there
> has been a seperate bugreport on the enigmail page that seems to point to the
> same problem (to avoid confusion: I posted my first bugreport there too
> before I noticed that there hadn't been an enigmail upgrade, but there
> has also been another one).
>
> I work in a small company and this problem is a desaster for us, since
> all of our communication is OpenPGP secured and we rely on
> thunderbird/enigmail to work. Please help to fix this problem quickly.
I haven't access to a jessie system right now. But you should be able to
use the version from Stretch.
Or you use the version 1.9.8 I've rebuilt right now for Jessie.
https://pkg-mozilla.alioth.debian.org/thunderbird52/
Note I can't ensure that this package will work as I can't test it now
in deep.
You could also use the Enigmail addon from Mozilla temporarily.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/
@Daniel
Could you please prepare a upload of a newer version of enigmail for
jessie-security? We will prepare a new version of Thunderbird for j-s
with a valid version for breaking old enigmail versions.
Regrads
Carsten
