Hello, on a home folder that has travelled with me over the years, ~/.icedove is linked to ~/.thunderbird or vice versa (machine is at home right now, and I can't check). Please make sure that any migration script is non-destructive with such a setup, as I don't think that it is uncommon at all!
Thanks! Ryan On 02/15/2017 06:35 PM, 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