On Sat, 2018-10-27 at 22:44 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + confirmed > > > > On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 13:09 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > I'm afraid that the security update of thunderbird from 52 to 60 > > > broke firetray, which, despite being a mere "extension", includes > > > some quite essential functionality for thunderbird (described > > > below). > > > > Apologies for the delay in getting back to you regarding this. The > > general response so far from the Security Team has been that they > > see > > these as stable issues, so let's go with fixing it via p-u. Please > > use > > the version suggested later in the thread, if the package is > > essentially a backport from unstable. > > In the meantime, another upload of thunderbird broken the version > check, > which was "up to 60.0". Turns out 60.2.1 does not match that > anymore. :/ > Details in #910973; no one from the maintainer team responded thus I > scheduled a NMU, it'll go in tomorrow evening. > > Unlike the first patch which required quite large code changes, this > is just a version bump. I guess you have no problems with that, but > stretch-pu bugs are version-marked so we'd still need to coordinate > on it.
It sounds fine, as long as it's uploaded in time. > And wrt the future: some people went angry about Thunderbird breaking > extensions again and again, and made https://github.com/gyunaev/birdt > ray > Obviously, it's not an option for Stretch, but there's hope we'll > avoid this > unpleasantness for Buster. Fingers crossed... Regards, Adam
