Re: [Evolution-hackers] Imminent critical SSL problem in evolution 3.10

[James Bottomley <James Bottomley HansenPartnership com>]

On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 07:56 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 10:00 -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> > OK, I reopened it as incomplete.  You can't close it as FIXED when it
> > isn't upstream in the gnome tree because that's going to cause 
> > massive
> > confusion: a package maintainer reading the bugzilla list is going to
> > think they're getting the fix from the 3.10 branch when, in fact,
> > they're not.  If there's some reason not to incorporate the distro 
> > patch
> > into the 3.10 fixes branch, then close it as WONTFIX with reference 
> > to
> > the distro patch.
>
>         Hi,
> we look on the same thing in a different ways. My point of view:
> the *current* stable version is 3.12.x (right now 3.12.7). This 
> current stable version doesn't suffer of the issue described for 3.10 
> version.

well, I know this, I run 3.12 as well.  That's why the bugzilla is
opened against 3.10.x.  To close it as fixed becuase it's not a problem
in 3.12.x is a brazen lie.

>  It's not my fault that your distribution uses obsolete 
> evolution version; I do not have any influence on it. The bug as such 
> is fixed, in the *current* stable version. The 3.10 is dead for the 
> upstream. Nonetheless, my intention was to provide a fix for such 
> distributions anyway, in a way I chose. I'm not going to commit the 
> patch to the gnome-3-10 branch, I do not like to add changes into dead 
> branches, where no releases will be done.

Fine so close it as WONTFIX if you're not maintaining a 3.10.x fixes
branch ... it's not rocket science.

James