[Users] GData Plugin

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 21:57:33 -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
>>> Hmm, I have 3.11.1 from repos of debian stable.  Is the version of
>>> the plugin in that build too old?  I guess Google changed something
>>> since then?  
>>
>>Yes and yes: they made OAuth2 mandatory, IIRC.  
>
>Is there any way to get the new version on debian stable without
>building from source?  The PPA for Ubuntu only seems to go up to 3.11
>and installing from debian testing onto my system is a no go (because
>of new dbus needs systemd?)

Because Claws doesn't require much dependencies it's easy to build on
nearly each release model distro. Why don't you want to compile
it/build your own package? I not only build it for Arch, but also for
Ubuntu. However, most likely you could install Claws from Debian testing
without any issue since the version from sid requires

  "dep: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78)" -
  https://packages.debian.org/sid/claws-mail

while even squeeze already provides

  "libdbus-glib-1-2 (0.88-2.1+squeeze1)" -
  https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libdbus-glib-1-2

I don't understand why installing Claws from the sid repos should
require dbus from sid. FWIW maybe you should send a request to the user
mailing list of your distro ;) or simply switch to a distro that
provides what you need, if you dislike to build Claws yourself.

Regards,
Ralf