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and subject line Bug#1094887: fixed in balsa 2.6.5-1
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Source: balsa
Version: 2.6.4-3
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected]
I think we should remove balsa from Debian. I believe it's not used by
members of the Debian GNOME team (who are the maintainer for old
historical reasons) so there aren't any uploaders who are verifying
that the app works.
I am concerned by the recent bug reports from one user:
https://bugs.debian.org/1093651
https://bugs.debian.org/1094681
balsa has a very old Request for Help bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/642906
balsa is currently not in Testing but that's not really balsa's fault.
Daniel Gillmor did some packaging work in 2020-2021 but then didn't
reply to my comment on the RFH bug in 2022 or contributed to the
packaging since. So I'm using this bug to check in with Daniel if he
is still using balsa and can verify that it works or if he instead is
comfortable with balsa being removed from Debian.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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Source: balsa
Source-Version: 2.6.5-1
Done: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
balsa, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]> (supplier of updated balsa package)
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:20:42 -0400
Source: balsa
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 2.6.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Jeremy Bícha <[email protected]>
Closes: 1094887
Changes:
balsa (2.6.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream release (Closes: #1094887)
* autopkgtest: update for user config move from .balsa to .config/balsa
* Remove all patches: no longer needed
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