Hello intrigeri, Am 20.08.20 um 15:04 schrieb intrig...@debian.org: > Hi, > > I see that on the debian/experimental branch, where the upgrade to > Thunderbird 78 is being prepared (many thanks for this!), the > thunderbird package has an unversioned "Breaks: enigmail": > > commit 8adec8f0bd5eff09cffa8ec8fb579989640e001f > Author: Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> > Date: Sat Jun 20 17:04:54 2020 +0200 > > enigmail: let any version of Enigmail break > > The Enigmail functionality for managing OpenPGP keys and encryption is > now included within Thunderbird, means we want to break every existing > enigmal package version so it will get removed by newer thunderbird > packages. > > I don't think that's correct:
I've no doubt that this specific on TB packaging side isn't fully ready and will need some fine tuning. My intend in late of May and in the beginning of June was to have a in principle working TB 78 package which is able to write and receive emails. At this time it wasn't clear how the PGP part will move to. But now more than two months later we see much more light and also did get more and more information. So yes, thanks for having a critical look at this. > in order to import existing secret keys > from the GnuPG keyring, and previously used Enigmail configuration, > one needs Enigmail 2.2.x (which does nothing more that providing > a migration wizard): > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Migration-From-Enigmail. > My own testing, both with and without Enigmail 2.2.x installed, > confirmed this. I haven't followed the development of Enigmail in detail, but I assumed that 2.1.x will be the last version of Enigmail which is provided by the Enigmail team. So I'm a bit surprised that Enigmail will do a version 2.2. I'm not really happy about the spreading of news around inclusion of Enigmail functionality into Thunderbird. > So: > > 1. I think the correct control field for thunderbird would be: > > Breaks: enigmail (<< 2:2.2.0~), > > 2. To support users who currently use Thunderbird + Enigmail in > Debian, ideally we would have Enigmail 2.2.x in Debian at about the > same time as Thunderbird 78, i.e. presumably around 2020-09-22, > when the 68 series will be EOL'ed. > > dkg, how likely is it that this happens? > > If this does not happen, a plan B could be to set the > mail.openpgp.allow_external_gnupg pref to true by default, so that > Thunderbird's own OpenPGP code falls back to using GnuPG when it > cannot find a secret key it needs. > > Thoughts? I trust you enough to add the suggested version to the Breaks entry for enigmail. And I can add this rather quickly as version 78.2.0 is in the door, should be released officially at the beginning of the next week I guess. But of course it would be nice to hear also the opinions of Daniel to this problem. -- Regards Carsten Schoenert
