Package: semi Version: 1.14.6+0.20100219-1 Severity: normal Support for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) is completely broken with SEMI that ships with Debian GNU/Linux.
The problem is, that the S/MIME library which is part of SEMI is not
in load-path, so SEMI uses the S/MIME functions provided by the S/MIME
library of Gnus (which is part of current Emacsen).
Both libraries are incompatible: For instance `smime-verify-region' of
Gnus' smime.el takes only begin and end of region, while SEMI expects
the function to take a third argument with the detached signature. As
far as I can see this incompatibility affects all functions used by
SEMI.
Moreover, the S/MIME library of SEMI refers to a program called "smime"
to handle S/MIME, but this program seems not to be available in Debian
GNU/Linux (e.g. packages.debian.org does not know of such a program).
I don't know what the right course of action is here:
1. if we move SEMI's smime.el back in load-path, rename it and its
functions and make SEMI call these renamed functions, the problem
of the missing program "smime" remains.
-or-
2. we could make a Debian specific patch that makes SEMI use Gnus'
S/MIME functions properly and upstream might incorporate this
patch
-or-
3. fix it in upstream by providing an updated SEMI specific smime
library that uses OpenSSL and/or GnuTLS
Option 2. seems best to me.
HTH
-- David
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages semi depends on:
ii apel 10.7+0.20080906-2 portable library for emacsen
ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management system
ii emacs [emacsen] 23.2+1-2 The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii emacs23 [emacsen] 23.2+1-2 The GNU Emacs editor (with GTK+ us
ii flim 1:1.14.9+0.20100313-2 library about internet message for
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
semi recommends no packages.
Versions of packages semi suggests:
ii gnupg 1.4.10-4 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
pn mailcrypt <none> (no description available)
pn wl | wl-beta | t-gnus <none> (no description available)
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