[Pan-users] Re: pan and gmime 2.4.0

[Duncan]

George Sherwood <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Fri, 10 Oct
2008 07:34:19 -0500:

> Duncan,
>       Have you heard anything on this?  Do you know if Gentoo is getting
>       close to unmasking gmime 2.4.0?

I haven't, but I've been busy working on other bugs of late (kernel 
2.6.27 was a tough one for me, and I've been working on a couple openrc 
bugs too).

However, I see gmime-2.4.1 is in the tree, masked (as you hinted) now.  
The tracker bug referenced is 

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=239412

It doesn't appear they're doing anything to try to patch the actual 
package sources to work with the new gmime, just slotting gmime and 
making the packages dependent on the appropriate slot, until upstream 
fixes the packages.  There's a pan ebuild patch on that bug, but that's 
all it's effectively doing, too.

So IOW don't expect much pan sources patch help from Gentoo on this one, 
as they'll have both gmime versions installed and setup their packages 
including pan to depend on whichever one they need.

I /did/ see a change on a gnome/pan bug I'm CCed to from Charles a couple 
days ago, tho, so if we're lucky he's coming back from his long hiatus.  
It was just a dup notification on that (fixed in 0.133) *.nzb security 
bug, tho, which isn't by itself indication of much activity.  (I've not 
updated my svn version in a couple weeks due to the business mentioned 
above... maybe if I did it'd show activity there?  I suppose I should...)

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