Thanks Chris, your patch fixed it (the comment in line 198 can stay). Andrea
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:12:44 +0000 Chris Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:48:00 +0100 Andrea Stacchiotti > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Indeed, this "fix" is a nightmare (replying to this bug report has been > > a nontrivial task). > > > > My Thunderbird refuses to start if I have: > > * Neither .icedove nor .thunderbird > > * Only .thunderbird > > > > And the migration somehow put a .thunderbird inside the .icedove when I > > put an empty .icedove folder. > > > > Sorry for the annoyed tone, but this has made Thunderbird completely > > non-functional, unless I directly start > > "/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin". > > > > Package version: 1:45.7.1-2 > > > > > > I've attached a patch that fixes it, at least for me. > It appears that the comments at the end of lines 196 and 197 (and > possibly 198 so I've removed it too) are breaking the elif, by making it > read the next line as a comment too (because of the \ telling it to > ignore the newline). Either way, bash doesn't like this syntax, don't do > it! :-) > > HTH, > Chris
