On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 10:56 AM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I've recently worked to package all Sequoia PGP projects for Fedora > 34+, which includes an alternative PGP backend for thunderbird [1] > with better system integration (e.g. with the gpg agent, user keyring, > etc.) than the bundled PGP implementation that's based on librnp. > > However, thunderbird currently has no support for setting a path to a > different librnp.so implementation [2]. On debian-based systems, this > is solved by using dpkg-divert in the package for the sequoia-based > plugin, but that is not available on RPM based distributions. > > The only solution I could come up with so far [3] would be to split > off the default librnp implementation into a thunderbird subpackage, > have it and the alternate implementation virtually provide > "rnp-backend" or something like that, and add a requirement for this > virtual Provide in thunderbird, with a preference for the default > implementation. > > This should not change the default behaviour, but would allow users to > easily switch their thunderbird PGP backend with "dnf swap > thunderbird-librnp-rnp sequoia-octopus-librnp", or by specifying it at > install time. Thunderbird and sequoia-octopus-librnp packages with the > necessary patches applied are available from a COPR [4] for testing > for F34+. > > What do you think? Am I missing some obvious solution, or is this a > sane way forward? Nope, that's pretty much the way to go. We did this[0] for the PipeWire change[1], so emulating that makes sense. [0]: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/pipewire/blob/f12724f11a0d49da1e0c5d7e363d7b94360b8755/f/pipewire.spec#_249-251 [1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DefaultPipeWire -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
