[artix-general] [universe] thunderbird 102.2.0 broke sequoia-octopus-librnp 1.4.0 and TbSync ext (and the exchange provider ext)

[Javier]

On 8/31/22 13:46, artist wrote:
> Mozilla jumped the gun by releasing TB 102 for GA. According to the developer for Betterbird - who has been developing for TB for a long time - it can be used since version 102.2, but still contains many bugs: https://mzl.la/3bTAURZ
> Also Betterbird 91 is still actively being developed, and now at 91.13.

Ohh, I hadn't payed attention to betterbird before.  I guess one would still need to use sequoia octopus if wanting to use the gnuPG keychain, rather than TB's stuff, right?

I read before about betterbird, but as not being oriented to better privacy, like librewolf to FF for example, then I just never payed much attention to it, perhaps it's time to change that, :)  Though I can hold TB at 91.12 while it works with current libraries on Artix, or while betterbird doesn't come with something really deal breaking:

> Betterbird using sequoia octopus librnp, rather than TB's native one, or any other solution using gnuPG's keyring instead of TB's stuff
> Betterbird providing systray on gnu+linux.  I have to use TB with kdocker cause they never wanted to provide a native and proper systray for gnu+linux
> Tweaking defaults in favor of privacy settings, and even removing dangerous stuff, and if any, also binary blobs.
> Making TB work for external mail provider when under a proxy protected firewall since at work I totally lose connection with any non work accounts.  TB with tsocks used to work (kdocker -q -d 80 tsocks thunderbird %u), but it no longer does now, and I didn't even noticed when that stopped working due to the sars-cov-2 WFH measures).  Don't really know why this happens to TB, if it's totally overcome on FF

If betterbird uses gnuPG's keyring, like by using sequoia's octopus, then that would be no-brainer for me, :)  I'll immediately move, :)

> Indeed TbSync + Provider Exchange do not yet work on TB 102, even though its developer has already spent much time on fixing this.
> The only fix for this is the paid extension Owl https://www.beonex.com/owl/, and the only WA for this is to install and use webdav http://davmail.sourceforge.net/index.html

Really sad.  I need to keep/hold TB version and the octopus one if it's not backwards compatible with older TB versions, until everything works again, including TbSync + Provider Exchange.  I used davmail years ago, and it really breaks timezone, and I never figured out how to work around that.  If the servers are in a different time zone than your time zone, and some one sends you an invite from your own local time zone, it shows up in the calendar in totally different hour.  Never found a way to work around that, and I don't recall how consistent was that as to file a defect on it.  I just discarded it as not really working fine.

> sequoia-octopus-librnp 1.4.1 is compatible with TB 102, but still fails to build; I'll have another go at this later

Hey, that's awesome.  Please let us know if it's not backwards compatible (if it doesn't work with TB 91.*), so I also include it in the list of packages not to be updated.

> artist

Thanks a lot @artist for your reply and time !!!

-- 
Javier
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