[sylpheed:37267] Re: Debian 12 released with two RC bugs in Sylpheed

Anton Shepelev <[email protected]> Fri, 7 Jun 2024 14:21:06 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.mail.sylpheed.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ricardo Mones:

> Let me quote it for you from the very bug 1036799 message
> 28:
>
> | Yeah, I understand the situation is not funny for you.
> | Fact is upstream has still not dealt with this bug
> | despite the time passed (months), so there's no patch I
> | can apply to current version.
> |
> | This fact joined with the increased slowness of upstream
> | development during the past years makes me wonder if
> | it's still worth to maintain Sylpheed within Debian.
>
> And clock's still ticking and no news from Hiroyuki since
> january 2023.

Please, keep Sylpheed in Debian.  It is one of the greatest
mail clients ever despite rare updates and some bugs:

  Sylpheed saved my life:
  <http://web.archive.org/web/20061107135628/http://www.zedshaw.com/tips/sylpheed.html>

One of the most annonyng bugs for me was that 3.8 stopped
working with Gmail:

  [in this mailing list]
  <[email protected]>

so I remain on 3.7 until Gmail drops normal mail suport,
which I think will take palce on September the 30th.  By
then I hope to find a better e-mail provider.