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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
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On Thu, Jan 15 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> It seems no very recent system has gmime2.4. I guess several of these
> gmime2.4 only code paths are both security critical (e.g. in crypto.c)
> and mostly untested.
>
> Is there good reason to keep supporting gmime 2.4?

if there are potential security issues that we do not test (i.e. I do not
test), then removing (instead of just deprecating) is a good option -- 
I'll just have to install gmime-2.6 on my Scientific Linux 6.2 system...

Tomi


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