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? Thanks, Fabio [1]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp [2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698540 [3]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/thunderbird/pull-request/11 [4]: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/decathorpe/sequoia/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
