Bug 1259549

Summary:	Enigmail should not depend on Thunderbird because it also works in Seamonkey
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Randy Barlow <rbarlow>
Component:	thunderbird-enigmail	Assignee:	Christian Dersch <lupinix.fedora>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	24	CC:	woiling
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Description Randy Barlow 2015-09-03 02:01:36 UTC

Description of problem:
The Enigmail plugin is created for both Thunderbird and Seamonkey according to the upstream home page[0]. The Fedora package seems to imply that Enigmail is only for Thunderbird for two reasons:

0) It is called thunderbird-enigmail instead of simply enigmail.
1) thunderbird-enigmail depends on Thunderbird.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-enigmail-1.8.2-3.fc23

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. $ dnf install thunderbird-enigmail

Actual results:
dnf will bring in Thunderbird as well, which Seamonkey users might not want.

Expected results:
I'd expect to be able to install Enigmail without having to install Thunderbird as well. It would be ideal to also rename the package to enigmail if possible.


Additional info:
[0] http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php

Comment 1 Remi Collet 2015-09-03 05:13:03 UTC

When this package was created, It used the "thnderbird" sources (not always in sync with seamonkey version), and thus only compatible with thunderbird.

The new version doesn't need this anymore, and yes should be compatible with seamonkey. but this will require a lot of changes

- move installation
- create a thunderbird subpackage with link and dep.
- create a seamonke subpackage with link and dep.

Not something I should have time to do in the near future.

Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-01-04 13:40:50 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 3 Jan Kurik 2016-02-24 15:36:15 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 24 development cycle.
Changing version to '24'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora24#Rawhide_Rebase

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Comment 6 Woi 2017-08-31 14:22:30 UTC

This is still true for Fedora 26:

sudo dnf repoquery --deplist thunderbird-enigmail|grep thunderbird
Last metadata expiration check: 1:00:07 ago on Thu Aug 31 15:16:10 2017.
package: thunderbird-enigmail-1.9.7-1.fc26.noarch
  dependency: thunderbird >= 38.0
   provider: thunderbird-52.3.0-1.fc26.x86_64

But I don't have the necessary permissions to change the version field to 26. And I also don't know if a fix is worth it at all: The package does what you expect from the package name and the whole SeaMonkey project is at risk, e.g. they are even struggling to release regular updates.