[Pkg-giraffe-maintainers] Bug#865320: [PATCH] inetmapi: adjust for vmime 0.9.2 API

Dimitri John Ledkov xnox at ubuntu.com
Wed Jul 26 14:47:52 UTC 2017


On 26 July 2017 at 09:55, Mark Dufour <m.dufour at kopano.com> wrote:
> hi dimitri,
>
>> I'm not sure, but I seemed to me the patch I was cherrypicking is only
>> in 8.4.90 aka alpha/beta builds. I might be wrong and/or got deceived
>> by github.
>>
>> This build failure was blocking python3.6 migration in Ubuntu. Hence I
>> did this, instead of removing/demoting the package in Ubuntu.
>
> since nothing else presumably depends on libvmime, wouldn't it be
> more straightforward to just revert to libvmime 0.9.1..?

Maybe.... however, this is now done, and we get "better" libvmime,
potentially. Up to debian maintainers / release teams to choose what
to do in Debian.
Reverts / version downgrades are a bit painful and are usually avoided
from the archive maintenance perspective.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.



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