Re: Icedove package needs update, following IceCat 68.9.0 update.

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

On 03.06.20 03:26, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Earlier, I wrote:
>
>> I just pushed the IceCat-68.9.0 security update to the master branch of
>> Guix, along with a graft for NSS.
>>
>> However, I just noticed that we now have Icedove in Guix, and that it's
>> based on 'icecat-source'.  This is all good and proper (kudos to all who
>> worked on it!), but unfortunately I didn't know about it until now, and
>> my IceCat update may have left Icedove in a bad state.
>
> Upon further thought, I think it's unlikely that Icedove was adversely
> affected by the IceCat update.  Updates to the ESR branch are generally
> limited to bug fixes and blocklist updates.  Also, I see that
> Thunderbird 68.9.0 has not yet been released, so maybe there's nothing
> to do at present.

There is a Thunderbird 68.8.1 with only 3 patches. None of them seems to
be security relevant. I'm working on the update. My laptop just needs
some time to built that stuff...