Your message dated Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:20:44 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1129594: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #563096,
regarding sylpheed: please disable auto-update
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Package: sylpheed
Version: 3.0.2-1
Severity: minor
Since version 3.0 Sylpheed gained auto-update functionality.
To quote upstream changelog:
src/mainwindow.c: implemented update check (using curl).
Apparently this feature crawled its way into the Debian package.
One can easily see this, as Sylpheed spits on startup the following
(in the absence of installed curl):
(sylpheed:27940): Sylpheed-WARNING **: Couldn't execute curl
What is worse - there is not meaningful way to disable auto-update via
Sylpheed GUI. The appropriate setting in sylpheedrc is called
'auto_update_check'.
So, either:
1) Sylpheed should get curl to its Recommends.
2) This feature should be disabled. I installed this package
the usual way, so I expect it updating the usual way - apt-get, aptitude and
friends.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages sylpheed depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-4 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcompfaceg1 1:1.5.2-5 Compress/decompress images for mai
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.86-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-1 a wrapper library for various spel
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpg-error0 1.6-1 library for common error values an
ii libgpgme11 1.2.0-1.2 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.16-1 a spell-checking addon for GTK's T
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.17-2.1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libonig2 5.9.1-1 Oniguruma regular expressions libr
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock9 0.12.5-2 library for communicating with a P
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-1 SSL shared libraries
Versions of packages sylpheed recommends:
pn aspell-en | aspell-dictionary <none> (no description available)
ii ca-certificates 20090814 Common CA certificates
pn sylpheed-i18n <none> (no description available)
pn xfonts-100dpi | xfonts-75dpi <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages sylpheed suggests:
pn bogofilter <none> (no description available)
pn bsfilter <none> (no description available)
pn claws-mail-tools <none> (no description available)
pn jpilot <none> (no description available)
pn sylpheed-doc <none> (no description available)
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.8.0~beta1-3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package sylpheed has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1129594
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
[email protected].
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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