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Description of problem: Geary is not maintained any more and upstream is mostly dead[1]. Yorba company/foundation is gone [2]. There are no more updates for geary, nobody will take care of security fixes. Security is quite important for an application mostly parsing content downloaded from (partially untrustworthy sources on) the internet. Unless downstream (i.e. @salimma and @thm) are willing to take the burden of full maintenance, this package should be orphaned. To cite Michael Catanzaro [3]: > It's dead upstream, and it's gonna be stuck on WebKit1 forever, so it's very insecure to the point where it should arguably be dropped from Fedora, and it's affected by WebKit crashes that will never be fixed, and there are no signs this will change. If someone starts maintaining Geary (including working on the WebKit2 port, possibly by rebasing Geary on Pantheon Mail) then we could consider it; otherwise, this is a blocker issue IMO. Additional info: I'm not sure whether this package can still be removed from Fedora 24. It should (if possible), maybe through a freeze exception. [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/geary/log/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Yorba_Foundation&oldid=691130501#Does_Yorba_still_exist.3F [3] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6KZC2KQM7S6WIAMT375PX3FRCYEOTCCF/
I fail to see any death here. Last commit at upstream is 24 hours old. https://git.gnome.org/browse/geary/log/
There is a difference between discussing whether Geary should be the default email client and totally retiring it from the distribution. As there recently have been discussions about finding new maintainers (see for example this thread https://mail.gnome.org/archives/geary-list/2016-March/msg00002.html) and even someone volunteering, I see no reason for hastily retiring Geary from Fedora.