From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 12:17:50 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
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Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
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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:
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+> 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?
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+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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