EPEL Thunderbird and/or claws-mail in epel 7 beta

[Dan Horák]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 13:27:27 -0700
Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 6 March 2014 13:24, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 03/06/2014 10:24 AM, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Will the subject packages be included in epel 7?  I don't see them
> >> listed on the web pages at
> >> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/SRPMS/repoview/
> >>
> >> tia
> >>
> >
> > Someone will have to step up and maintain them there.  (I hope it
> > doesn't end up being me).  Fairly surprised that TB isn't in RHEL,
> > I guess they're just backing evolution.
> >
> > Jan - any interest?
> >
> >
> Thunderbird is going to be a pain for the EPEL rules. It would have
> to keep up with the other items that are in RHEL (xulrunner and
> firefox) which could mean API changes when they go from long-term to
> long term.

Thunderbird is a standalone app, it bundles xulrunner, so not this kind
of problem.


		Dan