Package: thunderbird

Hallo Carsten,

This is more of a request than a bug report.

I'm on Debian testing, and that means that security support is not
guaranteed nor prompt if the package is stuck in unstable for any
reason.

So, in order to mitigate this situation, I kindly request that a new
major version of Thunderbird be packaged in experimental rather than in
unstable. The reason is that: the first few releases of a new major
version are almost always buggy, and that prevents it from migrating to
testing in due time. Later releases can then be packaged in unstable
when it becomes stable enough. In the meantime, new releases of the
current major version can be packaged in unstable and migrate to
testing.

That is the same approach of upstream Thunderbird: they postpone the
upgrade to the new major version for the first few releases until it
become stable.

> Thunderbird version 102.0.3 is only offered as direct download from
> thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 91 or
> earlier. A future release will provide updates from earlier versions.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.0.3/releasenotes/

Best,
Amr

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