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From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>
To: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: proposal: remove support for gmime2.4
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:17:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r3uwp79t.fsf@guru.guru-group.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87387c9wg0.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>

On Thu, Jan 15 2015, David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:

> It seems no very recent system has gmime2.4. I guess several of these
> gmime2.4 only code paths are both security critical (e.g. in crypto.c)
> and mostly untested.
>
> Is there good reason to keep supporting gmime 2.4?

if there are potential security issues that we do not test (i.e. I do not
test), then removing (instead of just deprecating) is a good option -- 
I'll just have to install gmime-2.6 on my Scientific Linux 6.2 system...

Tomi


>
> d

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-15 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-15 10:20 proposal: remove support for gmime2.4 David Bremner
2015-01-15 12:17 ` Tomi Ollila [this message]
2015-01-15 19:47 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor

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