Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

Hello Emilio, On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 05:07:10PM +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Any progress on this? more or less. It was a long way from starting the de-branding work in spring over Debconf to now. I rebased several times my work for de-branding Icedove back to Thunderbird due soem

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

Hi Carsten, On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:34:31 +0200 Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hello *, > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:30:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > mhh one problem could be that icedove unfortunately chose to use > > ~/.icedove for settings. > > > >

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

Over the past few years since Mozilla software was rebranded in Debian, I made numerous switched/migrations to different distros (i.e Fedora, Ubuntu). And from those same distros back to Debian. And from my personal experience, every time I did this to get Icedove migrated to Thunderbird, I would

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 09:27 +0200, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > I don't think that's a valid argument. Well I didn't argue in favour or against a re-brand. > As part of "post-install" script for "icedove" to "thunderbird" > package, sed statement could be defined which will replace all > "icedove"

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

I don't think that's a valid argument. As part of "post-install" script for "icedove" to "thunderbird" package, sed statement could be defined which will replace all "icedove" references with "thunderbird". Problem solved. On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer <

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

mhh one problem could be that icedove unfortunately chose to use ~/.icedove for settings. That in turn seems to be stored in many places within the profile, not to talk about possible add-ons which may store that in encoded or binary form... So that's going to be difficult to migrate :-/

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

Thunderbird 45.0 has been released (see: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/45.0/releasenotes/ )... Perhaps now could be a good time to move it to sid.

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

I am also interested in progress here, I've asked the TB-Enterprise mailing list if anyone's able to dedicate more resources here: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/tb-enterprise/2016-April/001205.html I can help with QA, documentation, etc. -- Fabián Rodríguez http://debian.magicfab.ca

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

I offered my help but the team seems to be busy right now. Sylvestre

Bug#816679: icedove: Please rename icedove to thunderbird

Package: icedove Severity: normal Just like with bug #815006, the same will happen for Thunderbird. The rationale is the same as for Iceweasel. The main difference is that Thunderbird is now a community-driven project. R. Kent James, Chair, Thunderbird Council, agrees that Icedove changes and