-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 This sounds a good idea, and may reduce any confusion out there.
Paul On 15/02/17 17:35, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Hi Debian Developers and followers, > > Thunderbird is back in Debian! We also renamed other related > packages to use official names, e.g. iceowl-extension -> > lightning. > > For now, we need testers to catch existing issues and things we > haven't seen until now. > > What happens the first time you start Thunderbird? > > With the change to the official Mozilla branding the users > profile(s) will also be changing from '$HOME/.icedove' to > '$HOME/.thunderbird' so we need to migrate the profile folder. This > is done by /usr/bin/thunderbird, a wrapper script, which does the > following things during initial startup: > > * Copy the contents of the old profile folder into the new folder > ~/.icedove_moved_by_thunderbird_starter * Fixup Icedove related > entries to Thunderbird in ~/.thunderbird/$PROFILE/mimeTypes.rdf * > Fixup Icedove related entries to Thunderbird in > ~/.config/mimeapps.list * The postinst/postrm scripts will move > existing configuration files from /etc/icedove/pref to > /etc/thunderbird/pref. > > What needs to be tested? * Are the mime type associations still > correct? * Is the migration working in various Desktop > Environments? * Did we miss some files that need to be handled? > > What should I prepare for testing? Please keep a backup of your old > ~/.icedove folder! Also please backup the file > ~/.config/mimeapps.list (if your DE is using this) before > installing the thunderbird packages. You'll find additional notes > in '/usr/share/doc/thunderbird/README.Debian'. > > If you find some issue, please open a bug report. Patches of course > are welcome! > > We like to say thanks to all people that are involved and helped to > do the migration! > > Cheers, Carsten, Guido and Christoph > - -- http://www.zleap.net diaspora : zl...@joindiaspora.com sign up at : https://joindiaspora.com/users/sign_up Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Next Tech jam Saturday 11th March 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJYpJuHAAoJEPCGVTfQZjAtjYgP/1m7DOoRqPGQgGd0t9YeK64h k+CI8qvGso5f1Hys5fYMaKm70WOKd0mwXqEqJDS9raQVX6dIB2aPIT64Bmw9l+r+ qHef242fq2UJSqodMBeuOl5JPEZ/Op+rI/Lekd82zv2PWGuhNfkrv6BVPt72/R0t TFIo6KWQ2Hd0Iv72AnH5mu4hZ2GrYa7lpoyKwkz6GHWYZZd0jYLtF+3DopPlZ47C gjrk8YGVwEsTLyQ4Fzi9tTUUUN5Pcid645ELZBNUeHgMdGKaXVeeO3gH9lmpegaj 30b2E0iRUHhYjbphUX29KNs/h+yhYHGpV+YfLpb09U0ei2VlRIDDpSnwd23+vZ5L 5RjNY9AZGFNsl7XMwO33p8gBxt3xWb3IkmHK1wErjbaKK6Sj/jDqd2t9eS1xMUUj 9Hai0onz/tBOBHT9pIdWBshhDpUv/Vsyd8EtlyG3h0YOj5PId83Ey7HIhV/zFbL0 33xQyY7nSn3vPXvRhZ32btyMbzrt5krfzFr/AJKbiQ8mreUmDE/gEHtUYuP5M+9j q9lZAhndwnl9V2f/2XC7pypfydIgFFfiJLj6bjLhv2TOdJr4XYLxJ5XN0wpqfLty EFnB5fgG8Tg31Xi16+vlcq4iReNVIiVr3iwcdOLas2KX8Q8X1v05Bva4GrbExZai 9xorx5XCexbi+1au3yc7 =6W3h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
