From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:47:32 +0000 (+1900) Subject: Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3a1fb9f3b2d7f52f93fd942c01a894b17c9ea21;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4 --- diff --git a/6c/9beacd5cae80cc806910be7208f8efb86f9f02 b/6c/9beacd5cae80cc806910be7208f8efb86f9f02 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..525a3d001 --- /dev/null +++ b/6c/9beacd5cae80cc806910be7208f8efb86f9f02 @@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAAF2431FD5 + for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:47:40 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 2.438 +X-Spam-Level: ** +X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.438 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[DNS_FROM_AHBL_RHSBL=2.438] autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id eBK4HUKXbWEV for ; + Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:47:37 -0800 (PST) +Received: from che.mayfirst.org (che.mayfirst.org [209.234.253.108]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E024431FBC + for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:47:37 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fifthhorseman.net (unknown [38.109.115.130]) + by che.mayfirst.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B7ABF984; + Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:47:30 -0500 (EST) +Received: by fifthhorseman.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) + id 2AE4320152; Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:47:36 -0500 (EST) +From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor +To: David Bremner , notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Subject: Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4 +In-Reply-To: <87387c9wg0.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> +References: <87387c9wg0.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca> +User-Agent: Notmuch/0.18.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.4.1 + (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) +Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:47:32 -0500 +Message-ID: <87k30n3jxn.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net> +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; + micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 19:47:40 -0000 + +--=-=-= +Content-Type: text/plain + +On Thu 2015-01-15 05:20:47 -0500, David Bremner 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? + +gmime 2.6 is available in squeeze-backports, which is about as old as +anyone can reasonably expect to run an end-user system these days in my +book. I have no objection to dropping gmime 2.4 support. + + --dkg + +--=-=-= +Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" + +-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- +Version: GnuPG v1 + +iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJUuBlVXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w +ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRFQjk2OTEyODdBN0FEREUzNzU3RDkxMUVB +NTI0MDFCMTFCRkRGQTVDAAoJEKUkAbEb/fpcKeUP/3hyHX61PJCN4pKPidrLlIqK +Y9NoynuRZLoorPNrSWEkNSXMbuq0/0jDVlnGokZp7hQlaB1VFVuAWF0oAiLycFEH +E+LfOqaAS9MKzbtRPmbPIjvhJ2iv80TSPbvBSj1qAIV6HdLcrLlcE/4LAqyKfa/y +mc6ZrMEc1YNuDdj3UoYJOuOeRudxl0F0IR/x24WPSxYDToFTw7JXSlcrijQp4MTT +ZD4GdM8SVfhpjNWjdx/20hJyn3x2YiF5iNrHVPnE1YlVQs6Nf7B2pqacI73srfYA +snY6d9xiHSGylkOmHcnLG1okkLRqx/bvWX3YSFuVAG01bxclofQFtLp/h6OEvAg6 +fw3jjkan1NNaOOUS9YZFh5oWiIeerH2NOhpZdgDtfTeNxt3qYzYGl4UWPr8xIdpf +V0H3ZX+dRdNb/MCUnEUVtQ7VA7o+zNDIdlYFjhmBi9xSkMBqNqhVQYUI+4Z82OYf +7zqkjQo7fWKldvjj92CZzMbqNxTtpF+7Z6ltFOytH27rh9PzvGXInQXxXX3l5HVW +7B5YlTcTpmm6Q93x+NUKiq31rqbf/l7RjqLE7c7zzlyfRXztRQrs/31kiujGErhJ +lQ6rQWODwlbaaZMQ+9hwizR6hcnpNS2s0Cuqik+93beF+18ythccXbGMfCtsDb2P +3jklKsD8dP+hwG0Cf2N1 +=KF9r +-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- +--=-=-=--