[arch-general] Thunderbird 78

[Archange]

Le 28/10/2020 à 15:20, Maarten de Vries via arch-general a écrit :
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 23:26, Bjoern Franke via arch-general <
> arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 27.10.20 um 23:12 schrieb Javier via arch-general:
>>> I really hope not, I prefer to wait than having to build TB on every
>> release.  Besides, current version works just fine...
>> There are also bin-packages so you don't have build it really.
>>
> True, but it still won't update automatically with `pacman -Syu`. For an
> email client, automatic security updates are quite important. Having to
> update manually from the AUR would certainly be a downgrade in user
> experience.

An AUR helper can solve this, but a binary is not good when it can be
avoided for system shared libs instead.

> Anyway, I can't imagine that not a single Arch packager or TU is using
> thunderbird.

Several of us use it (though I guess most use mutt or neomutt), but
anthraxx, the maintainer, seems quite busy and want to triple check
things around the new GPG interface before pushing.

Regards,
Archange