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unity-mail package

[FFe] Unity Mail

Bug #1668769 reported by Robert Tari
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Bug Description

[needs-packaging] Unity Mail

Unity Mail is an application that integrates your mail into the Unity, MATE, Xfce, LXDE and other environments.

Unity-Mail displays notifications about incoming mail, shows the number of unread messages and displays subjects in the Messaging Menu from multiple accounts/folders.

The Launcher item also has a quicklist that provides access to your mail folders (configured for GMail by default). It also allows you to quickly compose a new message or run custom commands.

Unity Mail starts automatically, all you have to do is to enter your accounts settings in a configuration dialog.

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URL:
https://tari.in/www/software/unitymail/

License:
GNU GPL 3+

Notes:
Unity Mail has already been packaded in Ubuntu from 12.04 until 15.04. After some stagnation, the project has been revived with a new developer/maintainer and has been available via a PPA since 15.10, receiving regular updates and new features.

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https://launchpad.net/~robert-tari/+archive/ubuntu/main

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Robert Tari (robert-tari)
description: updated
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

*** This is an automated message ***

This bug is tagged needs-packaging which identifies it as a request for a new package in Ubuntu. As a part of the managing needs-packaging bug reports specification, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/NeedsPackagingBugs, all needs-packaging bug reports have Wishlist importance. Subsequently, I'm setting this bug's status to Wishlist.

Changed in unity-mail (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Hi Robert!

Sorry for the late response. Here is my review of this package (speaking only as Ubuntu member, not as UM former maintainer):

* The debian/copyright icons/* section looks outdated. The original icon by Daniel Fore is no longer present, but there are new icons which seem to come from third party sources.

* The desktop file should not have a shebang. Lintian warns about it.

* debian/manpages file is empty, maybe delete it?

* This package uses dh_python3, so please add an explicit build-dependency on ‘dh-python’ package. The python3 → dh-python implicit dependency may be removed in the future. See https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command.html and

* Idea for future: debian/rules can be simplified by using the new pybuild build system. See https://wiki.debian.org/Python/Pybuild for details.

Now from technical details to the organizational ones.
Ubuntu is currently in feature freeze since Feb 16th (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze). You will need to either wait for Zesty release, or ask for a freeze exception. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess#FeatureFreeze_for_new_packages for details.

Changed in unity-mail (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Robert Tari (robert-tari) wrote :

Thanks for the reply. The proposed changes have been made, all 1.7.4 packages are in the repository, and the changelog also closes this bug.

I have tried to file a freeze-exception bug, but Launchpad currently does not allow a bug report against Zesty or Ubuntu itself either (it simply redirects to a Wiki page). Any explanation or proposed steps?

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

Robert, you don't need to file a new bug for Feature Freeze Exception. Just add FFe to this bug's title and subscribe ubuntu-release .

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Robert Tari (robert-tari) wrote :

Thank you Jeremy, done.

summary: - [needs-packaging] Unity Mail
+ [FFe] Unity Mail
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in unity-mail (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Now Artful archive is open, so we can reconsider this.

Robert, are you still interested in Unity Mail, given the latest news about Unity going away?

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Robert Tari (robert-tari) wrote :

Certainly. Since it supports a range of Desktop Environments, I think the (future) absence of Unity does not matter too much. I am not planning to change the name of the application, so I'd say nothing has changed.

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) wrote :

Uploaded, it is in the NEW queue now: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/artful/+queue.

Changed in unity-mail (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote :

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package unity-mail - 1.7.5.1

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unity-mail (1.7.5.1) artful; urgency=medium

  * Upload to artful archive (LP: #1668769).

 -- Robert Tari <email address hidden> Tue, 23 May 2017 10:51:10 +0200

Changed in unity-mail (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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