Control: affects 945537 src:thunderbird
Hi Debian Thunderbird devs--
Thanks very much for your work maintaining Thunderbird in Debian!
I just wanted to give you a heads-up that i've prepared a debian package
rnp. The packaging source can be found at
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/rnp. It should close #945537 once it
clears NEW.
If it's possible to build thunderbird against a system version of
librnp, that would be good to know. Hopefully it even makes the
thunderbird build marginally quicker ☺, and if there are
OpenPGP-specific security issues that get handled in rnp in the future
we should be able to update them without needing to trigger a
thunderbird rebuild. It should also serve as a validation of the rnp
shared library interface.
This transition doesn't need to happen right away, and is probably best
done for now with staging in experimental. One potential wrinkle for
adoption is that I'm in discussions with upstream about library naming:
see https://github.com/rnpgp/rnp/issues/1406 . If that gets resolved by
upstream the way I'm hoping it will, then the debian package names
themselves will change from librnp-0-0 and librnp-0-dev to the simpler
librnp0 and librnp-dev.
Having rnp and librnp in debian should be useful generally, even if
Thunderbird decides not to use the system librnp library, but I hope
that Thunderbird will be able to use it. If there are specific reasons
why this doesn't work, i'd be happy to hear those too. And if there's
anything I can do to make it easier/smoother, please let me know.
All the best,
--dkg
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