Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: merge -1 860381 Hello treaki,
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 08:25:58PM +0200, treaki wrote: ... > thats very nice because i have icedove still running. So what is if i > dont want to migrate right now or do want to migrate on my own. What > is if i want to read the migrate source before because i dont trust > them mostly because it says: > > "This will take a short time!" for that we have apt-listchanges in Debian that will inform the administrative user about important changes due package updates. > and i do not understand why it will take a while at all because its a > simple mv inode name change without any havy file system operation at > all. You could even just link the things to avoid this and have > compatiblity between both versions. > > So change this to a "do you want to let this system migrate that now" No, there is a little bit more that's happen under the hood. Mostly it will really take a short time but there can be circumstances it wont. If you take a look into the wrapper script you will see we have to take care about some MIME fixing in the user home folder and configs. And this may not be placed on a local mounted disk. > yes / no And what now? We can always do the migration as this wont break a running old Icedove binary and the old profile. The window is just a information for the user that there is something gonne be changed with some info where to find additional information. And we may have not always the full functionality of zenity or kdialog available! User with a Tiling window manager maybe only have xwindow usable. > dialog, or leav it away and just symlink ~/.thunderbird to .icedove > and be with it. It seems we can do what we want, it's impossible to make it convenient for *all* users. We have to decide what user base is the bigger one ... Some minor things can be of course improved and there is already a wishlist bug about completely silence the dialog for company installations e.g. See #860381 We always have to less time for working on all aspects of the Thunderbird packaging. You can try to came up with a patch otherwise. But consider to add some kind of test suite to check all possible uncertainties. Regards Carsten
