Bug#549053: balsa: Still uses gmime2.2

[Peter Bloomfield]

On 09/30/2009 10:52:40 AM Wed, joss at debian.org wrote:
> Package: balsa
> Version: 2.3.28-1
> Severity: normal
> User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: oldlibs gmime2.2
> 
> balsa currently still uses GMime version 2.2 (libgmime-2.0-2a).
> 
> However, there is a newer GMime version in the archive (gmime2.4),
> with an incompatible (although very close) API. GMime 2.2 will be
> eventually phased out in favor of this version.
> 
> Please port balsa to gmime2.4 as soon as possible. It is very likely
> that a new upstream version will include that change for most
> packages; if there is none available yet, you should forward this
> request upstream.

Balsa versions 2.4.x link against Gmime-2.4.  Version 2.4.0 was released  
on May 25 and 2.4.1 on August 9.  The Glib and Gtk dependencies were  
bumped at the same time (to 2.16 and 2.14, respectively), to clean out  
much compatibility code.

HTH!

Peter
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