[BUG] gmime-3.0.1 (was: [PATCH] crypto: gracefully handle gmime errors)

[Jan Malakhovski]

Servilio Afre Puentes <servilio at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 05 2017, Jan Malakhovski wrote:
>
> [...]
>> I added `gpgme` to `buildInputs` of `gmime` and now `notmuch` passes all
>> the tests. Yay! So that was the root problem.
>>
>> Is it correct to assume that when building with `gmime-3` `notmuch`
>> stops calling `gpg` binary and does all the things PGP using `gmime-3`?
>
> Yes, they use GPGME instead of a custom wrapper:
>
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gmime-devel-list/2017-April/msg00002.html
>
> BTW, I created a merge-request to have GMime 3 in Nixpkgs:
>
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/28796

I continued this nix-specific discussion there.