Feature #7154

Install liferea > 1.10.3

Added by alant 2014-05-02 12:14:01 . Updated 2016-05-09 11:47:06 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Tails_1.1
Start date:
2014-05-02
Due date:
% Done:

50%

Feature Branch:
feature/7154-install-liferea-above-1.10.3
Type of work:
Code
Blueprint:

Starter:
0
Affected tool:
Feed Reader
Deliverable for:

Description

Upstream version 1.10.3 use an XDG-compliant unversioned config directory name (.config/liferea). This is required to impement liferea persistence.

Subtasks

History

#1 Updated by alant 2014-05-02 12:15:43

  • % Done changed from 0 to 50
  • Feature Branch set to feature/7154-install-liferea-above-1.10.3

Should be done in feature/7154-install-liferea-above-1.10.3, needs testing.

#2 Updated by alant 2014-05-02 14:50:13

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • Target version set to Tails_1.1

#3 Updated by alant 2014-05-20 03:36:08

  • % Done changed from 50 to 70

Liferea 1.10.8 (from wheezy-backports) fails to connect.
This seems related to modifications in proxy support (http://lzone.de/Liferea-Trick-5-Privacy-with-SOCKS-Proxy).

I can workaround this by setting a HTTP proxy or by using usewithtor.

#4 Updated by alant 2014-05-22 08:20:07

  • % Done changed from 70 to 80

I updated the branch to start liferea with usewithtor.

#5 Updated by alant 2014-05-22 15:43:14

  • % Done changed from 80 to 100

It works well.

#6 Updated by alant 2014-05-22 15:59:28

  • Assignee changed from alant to anonym
  • QA Check set to Ready for QA

#7 Updated by BitingBird 2014-05-27 10:45:11

  • % Done changed from 100 to 50

#8 Updated by alant 2014-05-31 08:57:48

  • Status changed from In Progress to Rejected
  • Assignee deleted (anonym)
  • QA Check deleted (Ready for QA)

Liferea has an internal browser, with JavaScript enabled.
After a quick investigation, it looks like this issue is a blocker. I
don’t think it’s possible to fix without patching liferea, which I
don’t volunteer to do even if we agree it’s worth.

I this mark this feature as rejected.

#9 Updated by sajolida 2014-06-01 06:31:10

> Liferea has an internal browser, with JavaScript enabled.
> After a quick investigation, it looks like this issue is a blocker. I
> don’t think it’s possible to fix without patching liferea, which I
> don’t volunteer to do even if we agree it’s worth.
>
> I this mark this feature as rejected.

I’m not sure to understand the consequences of this. Does that mean that
Tails Jessie won’t have Liferea anymore?

Because if that’s the case then, maybe we could try other things like
contacting upstream to explain the issue and propose a striped-down mode
without JavaScript or general purpose browser.

Of course, that would go in different tickets, maybe as subtasks of this
one.

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2014-06-06 12:00:12

> I’m not sure to understand the consequences of this. Does that mean that
> Tails Jessie won’t have Liferea anymore?

No, it’ll have Liferea from the Wheezy repos.
Just, not the backport we thought would allow us to easily add persistence support.

> Because if that’s the case then, maybe we could try other things like
> contacting upstream to explain the issue and propose a striped-down mode
> without JavaScript or general purpose browser.

Personally, I’m now more confident in using Thunderbird/Icedove’s RSS support, than it trying to strip features out of Liferea until it suits our needs.

#11 Updated by sajolida 2016-05-09 11:47:06

  • Affected tool set to Feed Reader