[Users] Fedora 25 upgrade renders Claws Mail unusable

[edwardp at linuxmail.org]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 12:20:08 -0500
George Avrunin <avrunin at math.umass.edu> wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:51:48 -0500, edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> 
> > The original version under Fedora 24 was 3.13.2, the Fedora upgrade 
> > process should have upgraded this to 3.14, but it "downgraded" it
> > back to 3.13.2. Why it did this, I do not know. I have filed a bug
> > report on this over at Red Hat, including a reference to bug 3733
> > on Claws Mail Bugzilla.  
> 
> To clarify edwardp's comment, I think what happened is that Fedora 24
> came with 3.13.2, and there was an upgrade to 3.14 in late September
> that got applied.  For some reason, Fedora 25 has (at the moment)
> only 3.13.2, so someone who had upgraded to 3.14 and then moved from
> Fedora 24 to Fedora 25 got claws-mail downgraded from 3.14 to
> 3.13.2.  
> 
> There were some other problems with updates being pushed to Fedora 24
> before the release of 25 that didn't get into 25 (e.g., with
> rpm-python), so maybe this is another such problem.  (A
> claws-mail-3.14.0-1.fc25 package was built on koji.fedoraproject.org
> on September 22, the same date as the one for Fedora 24, but it
> didn't make it into Fedora 25 or, as yet, into the Fedora 25 updates
> repo.)  I don't know anything about why it causes the problem with
> the protocol setting, though.  (I'm holding off on going to Fedora 25
> for a few days until things like this settle down.)
> 
>   George

My Fedora systems never had Claws 3.14 under Fedora 24, it was always
the prior version (3.13.2). According to the Fedora packages database
page for Claws Mail at

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=claws-mail

3.14.0-1, is currently showing as "testing" for both Fedora 23 and 25,
which might explain the "downgrade", but "stable" for Fedora 24.

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-409c469d82 shows
3.14.0-1 for 24 being "stable" since 9 October 2016.