Hi Guido Now I understand the point. No objections then.
// Ola On 28 February 2017 at 23:15, Guido Günther <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:17:38PM +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > Hi LTS Team, Guido and Christoph > > > > In the dla-needed.txt file I found the following lines: > > > > "icedove > > NOTE: maintainer currenlty planx to rename to thunderbird with the next > > NOTE: upstream version (#851989). Jessie / Wheezy should do the same." > > > > I must admit that I do not really see the point in changing the name in > > neither stable nor oldstable. > > Since we're following upstream versions anyway not doing so will > significantly increase the backporting and testing efforts. So far > backporting Icedove was mostly a no brainer and we have benefitted 100% > percent from the work done by Carsten and Christoph in unstable / > testing. Much of this work is related to keeping the Icedove/Iceowl > branding in shape for the package and it's translations (look in the > patch-queue). > > Furthermore we're finally in sync with Firefox again which did the > renaming in a stable release too. > > I had a look at Carsten's work regarding the profile migration and I see > no reason why we should not do it in wheezy (iff Christoph intends to do > it for Jessie, which I assume). > > Cheers, > -- Guido > -- --- Inguza Technology AB --- MSc in Information Technology ---- / [email protected] Folkebogatan 26 \ | [email protected] 654 68 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / ---------------------------------------------------------------
