On 23 Feb 2011, at 19:12, Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote:
> Op 23-02-11 19:54, Jim Carter schreef: >> On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> >>> I expect it's possible to change the Sogo plugins to accept version >>> 3.0.11. But what is the reason to depend on Thunderbird version 3.1? >>> Maybe these bugs are fixed in Debian. >> >> My experience is with openSUSE so I can't help with Debian-specific >> issues, but the Lightning plugin will only install in Thunderbird 3.1.x, >> not 3.0.x. > > Hmm, you are right, the sogo-integrator-extention does install without > any problem, so it's only a problem with Lightning, and I can use > Lightning 1.0-b1 from Debian (called "iceowl-extention"), or the 1.0-b2 > xpi from Mozilla. > >> I imagine that the SOGo plugins are based on or closely related to >> Lightning and rely on infrastructure added in the newer version. >> >> On my net I obtained Thunderbird 3.1.6 from the SuSE Build Service so we >> could use Lightning (with a CalDAV server which we hope to replace with >> SOGo). > > Does this build service also create Debian packages? > >> Likely a recent version of Icedove can be found in Debian's >> "unstable" collection. > > There is only a 3.1.7 in "experimental". When an package is in > experimental this means there is something wrong. This isn't necessarily true, it just means it hasn't been tested thoroughly by the debian team I believe. If you want recent Mozilla software it has to come from Experimental. I run icedove and iceweasel with sogo plugins. Easy enough to install also, just put the experimental apt sources in then install with apt-get -t experimental... That package will stay at that level and all others should stay squeeze. > > But when it would be in unstable or testing it would not help really, > because I cannot ask from my users to run unstable. I could make a > backport, but then I had to backport it on every update for security. > > With regards, > Paul van der Vlis. > > -- > users@sogo.nu > https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists -- users@sogo.nu https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
