Bug#267949: I've decided to block balsa-2.2.3 from Debian testing

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

On 2004.08.27 17:57, Andrew Lau wrote:
> severity 267949 serious
> thanks
>=20
> Based on this issues covered in
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D267949. I've made the
> decision that Balsa 2.2.3 is not mature enough to replace 2.0.17-2 in
> the next stable release of Debian. Raising the level of this bug report
> to block its transition into testing. I hope I've made the right
> decision. It's probably too late to upload 2.0.18 into unstable to make
> a difference, but thankfully I did merge in Albrecht's GnuPG patches
> into 2.0.17-2 Debian release.

Actually, balsa-2.2.4 has been released which fixes all serious
issues. The only outstanding issues are:

- Newly arrived mail in open folders in existing threads show up
  as a collapsed thread instead of following the folder startup property.
  Annoying.

- You cannot change the sort order of an IMAP mailbox with
  threading enabled, since balsa in that case now completely
  relies on the IMAP server doing the threading, and IMAP has
  no way to sort threads relative to eachother.

Other than that, balsa-2.2.4 is stable (for me at least, heavy
daily use) and I think it's _more_ stable than 2.0.17 - it now
uses a better IMAP backend library, so for example it doesn't
crash with SEGV if you have two instances of balsa open against
the same IMAP server (one at home and one at work, say).

Mike.