Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:54:22 +0100 From: Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at> To: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dropping enigmail support from enigmail Message-ID: <ef8ada0c-4930-d8bd-5432-86a903c53b79@aon.at> In-Reply-To: <20161217220915.084BC66E8@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <20161217220915.084BC66E8@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Thanks for the pointer to enigmail in UPDATING, so I misunderstood the log message and should have looked in UPDATING. However, lightning seems to be gone - I don't find it installed with the port and it does not seem to be offered as an add-on for this platform. On 12/17/16 23:09, Jan Beich wrote: > Martin Birgmeier <la5lbtyi@aon.at> writes: > >> After upgrading to thunderbird-45.5.1_6 I noticed that enigmail (and >> lightning) support were gone from thunderbird. I tried to find a >> replacement package until I read the svn log message: > Lightning had 2 copies, only one of those was removed. For Enigmail see > /usr/ports/UPDATING from 20161216. > >> I think a decision to remove such an essential component should not be >> taken so lightly, especially when the actual port version (45.5.1) has >> not even changed. > Why the version should change? Enigmail isn't part of Thunderbird distribution > but just one of third-party extensions you can find on addons.mozilla.org. > For historic reasons it was bundled with the port but the requirment is gone. > > ENIGMAIL option was unmaintained beyond updates which were irregular. > And it was bound to get in the way if anyone attempted to refactor the > current maintenance nightmare gecko@ is in. > >
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