Bug#642906: RFH: balsa -- An e-mail client for GNOME
Daniel, Do you still use balsa? If so, do you think we can close this RFH bug? The biggest thing we were missing was someone who uses the app to confirm it's still working and able to make occasional fixes (which you can since you're a team maintainer for it). Thank you, Jeremy Bicha
Bug#642906: RFH: balsa -- An e-mail client for GNOME
Hi. I noticed the following in the "Work-needing packages report for Sep 30, 2022" e-mail sent from w...@debian.org to debian-de...@lists.debian.org on Sep 30... > For the following packages help is requested: >balsa (#642906), requested 4022 days ago > Description: An e-mail client for GNOME > Reverse Depends: balsa > Installations reported by Popcon: 604 > Bug Report URL: https://bugs.debian.org/642906 I might be able to help out here. But can you tell me exactly what help is needed? I may need to do a little preparation work before hand though. Thanks, Gervase. PS. I noticed that the request for help is also in https://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested, but there are no details there about how to reach out to offer help.
Bug#642906: RFH: balsa -- An e-mail client for GNOME
Control: affects 642906 + src:balsa On Mon 2011-09-26 10:24:34 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 26 septembre 2011 à 10:22 +0200, Maxime Chatelle a écrit : >> Sorry for the late, I will take it over as we said earlier [1] if your >> are ok again. With the holidays, I missed the time. (and a little bit >> forgotten) > > Ah right, I forgot we already had someone interested /o\ > > Please take it over when you have the time. We will remove it from the > pkg-gnome repository when it’s done. I haven't seen much activity on this RFH about balsa, and it looks like it's been over a year since any version of balsa has been uploaded to debian. I've just NMUed balsa 2.5.9-0.1 to debian experimental, which fixes a pretty severe bug (#911558). I've also pushed a MR for these changes here: https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/balsa/merge_requests/1, asking if i can help out more directly (i don't have push access to the balsa repo on salsa). If you're ok with me helping out, it'd be most useful if i could have access to push to the basla repo on salsa. Also, if you want me to add myself to uploaders on the package, i'm willing to do that. A few notes about remaining packaging work i see ahead for balsa: - Change debian/changelog to DEP-5. - Split out the arch-independent stuff in /usr/share to a balsa-data package, to reduce the size of the archive (this requires a trip through NEW, sigh). - Add some sort of autopkgtest (maybe we need something like https://salsa.debian.org/debian/test-daemons to make a plausible test suite?) - Consider enabling newer upstream features like Autocrypt. - If we land 2.5.9 in unstable, consider importing upstream's gmime 3.0 conversion work into debian/patches for unstable Regards, --dkg signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Bug#642906: RFH: balsa -- An e-mail client for GNOME
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:54:27 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the balsa package. Nobody in the GNOME team is actually using it anymore, and only RC issues are fixed at the moment. It is vastly inferior to evolution, but it is also a decent lightweight alternative for those in need for it. The package description is: Balsa is a highly configurable and robust mail client for the GNOME desktop. It supports both POP3 and IMAP servers as well as the mbox, maildir and mh local mailbox formats. Balsa also supports SMTP and/or the use of a local MTA such as Sendmail. . Some of Balsa's other features include: * Allowing nested mailboxes * Printing * Spell Checking * Multi-threaded mail retrieval * MIME support (view images inline, save parts) * GPE Palmtop, LDAP, LDIF and vCard address book support * Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages * File attachments on outgoing messages * GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption . Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package. Hi, Sorry for the late, I will take it over as we said earlier [1] if your are ok again. With the holidays, I missed the time. (and a little bit forgotten) [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2011-June/079567.html -- Maxime Chatelle, human from earth, 01000.cm94IGxvdmVyCg==.kpr mchatelle ↯ linux-france ↯ org mmyc ↯ gmx ↯ com 79E0 25F5 06C5 5C7F F57C BADD 13EE 911A 8A1A 9DE9 pgpyqzXmUxhLN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#642906: RFH: balsa -- An e-mail client for GNOME
Le lundi 26 septembre 2011 à 10:22 +0200, Maxime Chatelle a écrit : Sorry for the late, I will take it over as we said earlier [1] if your are ok again. With the holidays, I missed the time. (and a little bit forgotten) Ah right, I forgot we already had someone interested /o\ Please take it over when you have the time. We will remove it from the pkg-gnome repository when it’s done. Thanks, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#642906: RFH: balsa -- An e-mail client for GNOME
Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request assistance with maintaining the balsa package. Nobody in the GNOME team is actually using it anymore, and only RC issues are fixed at the moment. It is vastly inferior to evolution, but it is also a decent lightweight alternative for those in need for it. The package description is: Balsa is a highly configurable and robust mail client for the GNOME desktop. It supports both POP3 and IMAP servers as well as the mbox, maildir and mh local mailbox formats. Balsa also supports SMTP and/or the use of a local MTA such as Sendmail. . Some of Balsa's other features include: * Allowing nested mailboxes * Printing * Spell Checking * Multi-threaded mail retrieval * MIME support (view images inline, save parts) * GPE Palmtop, LDAP, LDIF and vCard address book support * Multiple character sets for composing and reading messages * File attachments on outgoing messages * GPG/OpenPGP mail signing and encryption . Support for Kerberos and SSL has been enabled in this package. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
