From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sun Dec 18 10:54:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714A2C86D2C for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:54:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from la5lbtyi@aon.at) Received: from smtpout.aon.at (smtpout.aon.at [195.3.96.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D5B5E1FD0 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:54:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from la5lbtyi@aon.at) Received: (qmail 1991 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2016 10:54:23 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on WARSBL505.highway.telekom.at X-Spam-Level: Received: from 62-46-66-102.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO gandalf.xyzzy) ([62.46.66.102]) (envelope-sender ) by smarthub78.res.a1.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted SMTP; 18 Dec 2016 10:54:22 -0000 X-A1Mail-Track-Id: 1482058462:1974:smarthub78:62.46.66.102:1 Received: from mizar.xyzzy (mizar.xyzzy [192.168.1.19]) by gandalf.xyzzy (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id uBIAsMfo009325; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:54:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from la5lbtyi@aon.at) Subject: Re: Dropping enigmail support from enigmail To: Jan Beich , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20161217220915.084BC66E8@freefall.freebsd.org> From: Martin Birgmeier Organization: MBi at home Message-ID: Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:54:22 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161217220915.084BC66E8@freefall.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 10:54:32 -0000 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 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. > >