[Users] Fancy

Andrej Kacian andrej at kacian.sk
Thu Aug 31 20:50:01 CEST 2017


On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:42:57 -0700
sylpheed at 911networks.com wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:15:52 +0200
> Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:42:24 -0700
> >sylpheed at 911networks.com wrote:
> >  
> >> and instead it uses Dillo    
> >
> >I wonder how did this happen. AFAIK we do not support Dillo plugin,
> >and do not include it in release tarballs - did Arch packager modify
> >the sources and added the plugin back on their own?  
> 
> Yes:
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/claws-mail
> 
> 1. There's a dillo-plugin.diff
> 2. Fancy has been removed from the build:
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/claws-mail
> 3. Apply the dillo diff (line 48)

Yep, I found this too in the meantime. :) I wonder if they know that
the plugin is unsupported, and is in fact less safe to use than Fancy,
given that it can not block loading remote HTML content?

And if so, do they inform users of this Archlinux package about this
fact?

-- 
Andrej




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