Package: checkgmail Version: 1.13+svn43-3 Severity: important Tags: upstream patch
Dear Maintainer, CheckGmail upstream on Sourceforge has been inactive for many years. The program has been mended multiple times by passers-by contributing patches in the SourceForge bug tracking system, without them being merged into the main tree (though distributions have often applied them themselves). Most critically, actions such as "Mark as read", "View fulltext", and in general anything apart from passively viewing a short snippet of emails has been broken for more than six months by now due to a change in the Gmail request structure. There are several forks available. As a regular user of this program for many years, I have found the fork [1] by monojp at GitHub to be a good continuation in the respect that it has resolved the updated Gmail request protocol issues (which is critical for the functionality), but also continued development by e.g. merging two-factor authentication support, extended mail handling functionality and more. If CheckGmail should continue to be a part of Debian, I propose that it should use a working fork, with the suggestion of [1]. Otherwise I would propose for it to be removed since it has not worked according to its specifications for a long time. (I marked this bug as "patch available" in reference to the working GitHub project linked.) [1]: https://github.com/monojp/checkgmail/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages checkgmail depends on: ii libcrypt-blowfish-perl 2.14-1+b2 ii libcrypt-ssleay-perl 0.58-1+b2 ii libfreezethaw-perl 0.5001-1 ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2492-3 ii libgtk2-trayicon-perl 0.06-2+b1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-1 ii libio-compress-perl 2.066-1 ii libwww-perl 6.08-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.20-1 ii perl [libio-compress-perl] 5.20.1-3 Versions of packages checkgmail recommends: ii libcrypt-simple-perl 0.06-6 checkgmail suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
