Your message dated Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:47:09 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#946588: thunderbird's dowgrade prevention is being
triggered after upgrade from stretch
has caused the Debian Bug report #946347,
regarding Thunderbird: After dist-upgrade thunderbird thinks it is too old.
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946347: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=946347
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Package: thunderbird
Version: 1:68.2.2-1~deb10u1
Severity: grave
Dear Maintainer,
After a dist-upgrade from stretch to buster with thunderbird installed in
version 68.2.2-1~deb9u1
and being upgraded to version 68.2.2-1~deb10u1 thunderbird shows a message at
the start:
"A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile which are
no longer
compatible with this older version.
Use this profile only with that newer version, or create a new profile for this
installation of
Thunderbird. Creating a new profile requires setting up your accounts,
calendars and add-ond again."
This is strange and should not happen, as the version of Thunderbird is
practically the same.
I hope there is a better solution than waiting for a update, as this scenario
much more often
in the future.
Best regards,
Robert
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thunderbird depends on:
ii debianutils 4.8.6.1
ii fontconfig 2.13.1-2
ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-2
ii libc6 2.28-10
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-4
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-4
ii libdbus-1-3 1.12.16-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.110-4
ii libevent-2.1-6 2.1.8-stable-4
ii libffi6 3.2.1-9
ii libfontconfig1 2.13.1-2
ii libfreetype6 2.9.1-3+deb10u1
ii libgcc1 1:8.3.0-6
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.1+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.58.3-2+deb10u2
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.5-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.32-3
ii libjsoncpp1 1.7.4-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-7~deb10u1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-6
ii libstdc++6 8.3.0-6
ii libvpx5 1.7.0-3+deb10u1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.7-1
ii libxcb-shm0 1.13.1-2
ii libxcb1 1.13.1-2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1+b3
ii psmisc 23.2-1
ii x11-utils 7.7+4
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Versions of packages thunderbird recommends:
ii hunspell-de-de [hunspell-dictionary] 20161207-7
ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2018.04.16-1
ii lightning 1:68.2.2-1~deb10u1
Versions of packages thunderbird suggests:
ii apparmor 2.13.2-10
pn fonts-lyx <none>
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 1:68.3.0-2~deb10u1
Control: tags -1 fixed 1:68.3.0-2~deb9u1
Hello Jens, hello Robert,
the BTS should have noticed that these reports are fixed within the
upload version 1:68.3.0-2~deb10u1 for buster.
And as well for stretch by version 1:68.3.0-2~deb9u1.
So this email will close your reports now.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 12:33:14PM +0100, Jens Holzkämper wrote:
> Package: thunderbird
> Version: 1:68.2.2-1~deb10u1
> Severity: important
>
>
> The current package of thunderbird in stretch (68.2.2-1~deb9u1) reports a
> bigger version number than the current package in buster (68.2.2-1~deb10u1)
> due
> to the inclusion of the build timestamp. The version reported by stretch is
> 68.2.2_20191116203149/20191116203149 and buster
> 68.2.2_20191116193034/20191116193034.
>
> This information is then used by thunderbird to fill the compatibility.ini in
> the profile and after an upgrade from stretch to buster leads to thunderbird
> prompting to either quit or create a new profile because it detects that an
> older version of thunderbird is trying to open a profile last used by a newer
> version. I believe
> using the same profile should be safe, as the underlying upstream version is
> the same at the moment and should probably never be newer in oldstable than
> stable.
>
> As a workaround it's possible to start thunderbird with the parameter
> "--allow-
> downgrade" or manually delete the line starting with "LastVersion=" in the
> compatibility.ini in the profile but less savy users may use access to the
> data
> in their old profiles (the data is still there but a regular user will
> probably
> not be able to access it without further instructions).
Regards
Carsten
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