We actually did this in bug 690316. app.update.silent looks like just a way to hide the prompts prior to the actual update.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 690316 *** -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643736 Title: "What's new in Thunderbird 3" reappears on minor upgrades Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Invalid Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird When I initially upgraded to Thunderbird 3, a helpful "What's new in Thunderbird 3" tab appeared, explaining the new features. However, this has since reappeared after every minor patch release of Thunderbird, although it seems to contain no new information. Could this be disabled so that it only appears when upgrading from an earlier major version (<3.0), rather than from 3.0.x to 3.0.x+1 ? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: thunderbird 3.0.8+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42zk1-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Mon Sep 20 18:38:56 2010 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: thunderbird To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/643736/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
