On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 10:56 AM Fabio Valentini wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've recently worked to package all Sequoia PGP projects for Fedora
> 34+, which includes an alternative PGP backend for thunderbird [1]
> with better system integration (e.g. with the gpg agent, user keyring,
> etc.) than the bundled PGP implementation that's based on librnp.
>
> However, thunderbird currently has no support for setting a path to a
> different librnp.so implementation [2]. On debian-based systems, this
> is solved by using dpkg-divert in the package for the sequoia-based
> plugin, but that is not available on RPM based distributions.
>
> The only solution I could come up with so far [3] would be to split
> off the default librnp implementation into a thunderbird subpackage,
> have it and the alternate implementation virtually provide
> "rnp-backend" or something like that, and add a requirement for this
> virtual Provide in thunderbird, with a preference for the default
> implementation.
>
> This should not change the default behaviour, but would allow users to
> easily switch their thunderbird PGP backend with "dnf swap
> thunderbird-librnp-rnp sequoia-octopus-librnp", or by specifying it at
> install time. Thunderbird and sequoia-octopus-librnp packages with the
> necessary patches applied are available from a COPR [4] for testing
> for F34+.
>
> What do you think? Am I missing some obvious solution, or is this a
> sane way forward?
Nope, that's pretty much the way to go. We did this[0] for the
PipeWire change[1], so emulating that makes sense.
[0]:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pipewire/blob/f12724f11a0d49da1e0c5d7e363d7b94360b8755/f/pipewire.spec#_249-251
[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire
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