Control: block 1041409 by 1038812 Hi all--
Thanks for noticing this. Putting rnp 0.17.0 in the archive will require sexpp to land in the archive as well, but has been in in NEW for a few weeks (see #1038812). --dkg On Tue 2023-07-18 19:06:58 +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hi Alper, > > Am 18.07.23 um 17:20 schrieb Alper Nebi Yasak: >> I decided to upgrade Thunderbird to the version in experimental, and >> noticed that its OpenPGP functionality is completely broken: the Key >> Manager is empty, and it doesn't even attempt to decrypt/verify >> encrypted/signed messages (at least over external gnupg). > > ha, by accident I noticed the described behavior just a few hour ago too! > Thanks for trying out Thunderbird from experimental, I expect we will > find a few more glitches like that. > >> The "Troubleshooting Information" page says the expected minimum version >> for the RNP library is 0.17.0, where I had 0.16.3-1 installed as >> currently in unstable. > > Unfortunately the Thunderbird build system does not do a really good job > on detecting required versions for libraries or equal. And it's mostly > difficult to detect such version bumps by reviewing manually changes > after importing a new version. > >> Seeing a 0.17.0~git20220428-1 version for librnp0 in experimental, I >> tried installing that. But that doesn't work either, apparently its >> source is older than 0.16.1? (Also see bug #1031363). >> >> So I think Thunderbird needs to depend on librnp0 >= 0.17.0 (currently >> unversioned), but no such version is in Debian yet. I got it to work by >> sloppily packaging the newer source. (The proper package may take a bit, >> has a new dependency apparently in NEW -- I'm CC-ing the maintainer.) > > Your analysis is correct, Thunderbird will need a version constrain on > librnp0. But this requires the package to be available at least in > experimental. > > I'll do some work around this and change the build system while > preparing the next upload so it is using the internal shipped librnp > version until Daniel has uploaded a newer version. > > -- > Regards > Carsten
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