Bug#870073: Bug#869774: Enigmail update broke ppc support

[Stiepan Aurélien Kovac]

P.S.:

Quite weirdly, I was prompted for pinentry when looking at this message
I had just sent in the Sent folder, despite the fact that it was not
encrypted. Other than that, the self-compiled version of Enigmail works
wonders. If it has no security implications, I suggest that for powerpc,
we fall back to that version (I am referring to
https://www.enigmail.net/download/source/enigmail-1.9.7.tar.gz, for the
record). Since DSA https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3921 is
about "restoring compatibility" I think that it misses its goal and
hence, it's not wanted on PPC. If there are other (security)
implications, what are they?

Stiepan


On 08/10/17 19:40, Stiepan Aurélien Kovac wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I have checked my Thunderbird version and I have the latest available
> one on my platform:
>
> "apt-cache policy thunderbird
> thunderbird:
>   Installed: 1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1
>   Candidate: 1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1"
>
> (also according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/icedove)
>
> I have checked bug
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/870073
>
> but I do not think that we have the same issue:
>
> I didn't have to restart gpg-agent when installing the version I have
> compiled of enigmail...
>
> (and I don't use gnome, nor its keyring, at least not that I am, nor ps
> aux | grep's aware of)
>
> So I still think that this bug should be reopened for the specific
> architecture that I am using.
>
> (in clear, that Bug #869774 should be reopened for PPC)
>
> Regards,
>
> Stiepan
>
>
> On 08/10/17 15:12, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>> Hi there Stiepan--
>>
>> On Wed 2017-08-09 01:21:38 +0200, Stiepan Aurélien Kovac wrote:
>>> seems to have broken enigmail support, at least on the ppc (powerpc64) arch.
>> I don't think this is a ppc-specific issue -- nothing in the current
>> version of enigmail is debian-specific.  I also think your issue has
>> more to do with enigmail and thunderbird on jessie itself.  Your
>> situation i think has more to do with https://bugs.debian.org/870073
>> than with https://bugs.debian.org/869774.
>>
>>> "enigmail is incompatible with thunderbird 45.8.0" (shows up in add-ons 
>>> manager)
>> This makes it look like you haven't upgraded thunderbird on your jessie
>> installation.  the version of thunderbird available from
>> security.debian.org is 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1. (see:
>> https://packages.debian.org/source/oldstable/icedove)
>>
>>
>> If you are running jessie, please:
>>
>>  * upgrade to the supported version of thunderbird that has security
>>fixes
>>
>>  * ensure that you have "use-agent" in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
>>
>>  * ensure that gnome-keyring is not presenting a gpg-agent interface
>>(see https://bugs.debian.org/870073 for more discussion about
>>thunderbird and enigmail on debian jessie)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --dkg


-- 
Stiepan A. Kovac
M Sc ICT Security
IT+Tech. Tel. Eng.

Bug#870073: Bug#869774: Enigmail update broke ppc support

[Stiepan Aurélien Kovac]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for your reply.

I have checked my Thunderbird version and I have the latest available
one on my platform:

"apt-cache policy thunderbird
thunderbird:
  Installed: 1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1
  Candidate: 1:45.8.0-3~deb8u1"

(also according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/icedove)

I have checked bug

https://bugs.debian.org/870073

but I do not think that we have the same issue:

I didn't have to restart gpg-agent when installing the version I have
compiled of enigmail...

(and I don't use gnome, nor its keyring, at least not that I am, nor ps
aux | grep's aware of)

So I still think that this bug should be reopened for the specific
architecture that I am using.

(in clear, that Bug #869774 should be reopened for PPC)

Regards,

Stiepan


On 08/10/17 15:12, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> Hi there Stiepan--
>
> On Wed 2017-08-09 01:21:38 +0200, Stiepan Aurélien Kovac wrote:
>> seems to have broken enigmail support, at least on the ppc (powerpc64) arch.
> I don't think this is a ppc-specific issue -- nothing in the current
> version of enigmail is debian-specific.  I also think your issue has
> more to do with enigmail and thunderbird on jessie itself.  Your
> situation i think has more to do with https://bugs.debian.org/870073
> than with https://bugs.debian.org/869774.
>
>> "enigmail is incompatible with thunderbird 45.8.0" (shows up in add-ons 
>> manager)
> This makes it look like you haven't upgraded thunderbird on your jessie
> installation.  the version of thunderbird available from
> security.debian.org is 1:52.2.1-4~deb8u1. (see:
> https://packages.debian.org/source/oldstable/icedove)
>
>
> If you are running jessie, please:
>
>  * upgrade to the supported version of thunderbird that has security
>fixes
>
>  * ensure that you have "use-agent" in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
>
>  * ensure that gnome-keyring is not presenting a gpg-agent interface
>(see https://bugs.debian.org/870073 for more discussion about
>thunderbird and enigmail on debian jessie)
>
> Regards,
>
> --dkg

-- 
Stiepan A. Kovac
M Sc ICT Security
IT+Tech. Tel. Eng.

Bug#869774: Info received (Enigmail update broke ppc support)

[Stiepan Aurélien Kovac]

P.S.:
As a workaround, compiling and manually installing
https://www.enigmail.net/download/source/enigmail-1.9.7.tar.gz seems to
work (Enigmail is active again).
Personally, I did not encounter any problem with the Debian version of
enigmail preceding this update, so I suggest keeping it to that version
for powerpc, if there are no other security implications (did not have
the time to sort them out, but basically messages sent encrypted were
sent encrypted, never in clear).

-- 
Stiepan A. Kovac
M Sc ICT Security
IT+Tech. Tel. Eng.

Bug#869774: Enigmail update broke ppc support

[Stiepan Aurélien Kovac]

Hello,

I am reopening this bug as the latest update (apt-cache policy enigmail 
shows:

enigmail:
  Installed: 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1
  Candidate: 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1
  Version table:
 *** 2:1.9.8.1-1~deb8u1 0
500 http://somemirrorthatIuse/ oldstable/updates/main powerpc 
Packages
500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main powerpc 
Packages

100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
 2:1.8.2-4~deb8u1 0
)

seems to have broken enigmail support, at least on the ppc (powerpc64) arch.

After updating and restarting Thunderbird, the enigmail button has 
vanished...


If it was backported from Debian 9 without further adaptations, this is 
the cause:


Debian 9 doesn't support powerpc (only ppc-le, for little-endian) for 
some reason.


However, ppc support shouldn't be broken on Debian 8 as long as 8 is 
supported.


In advance, thank you for taking this into account and taking necessary 
action.


And let me know if I can be of any further help, this is a productivity 
killer for me.


Best regards,

--
Stiepan A. Kovac
M Sc ICT Security
IT+Tech. Tel. Eng.

P.S.:

When trying to install from the official Thunderbird repo., getting the 
message:


"enigmail is incompatible with thunderbird 45.8.0" (shows up in add-ons 
manager)

Bug#845716: Acknowledgement (gcc-4.9: "#define something" doesn't work)

[Stiepan Aurélien Kovac]

Please close this bug: I have first tried to submit it upstream but it
seemingly failed (server timeouts), so I decided to submit it here. In
fact the bug was still somehow submitted and in the meantime, upstream
dev pinskia solved it "

PPORT_FTP is used as an enum which is what is causing the issue. I am
generating a testcase which shows why the error message is not clear.

"


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