As I did those updates..
well explained, thx.
But this then seems to be a more general problem of how we want to
support a switch an application from one ESR/LTS release if it is EOL to
the next.
not terribly differently than others -- with an abundance of end-user education
and caution?
tbird version update -- across ESLs or not -- breaking one's install, or eating
one's mailstore, is not _automatically_ a universal fact
for tbird, it's more often an issue specific to one's system; not uncommmonly, your
config &/or your addons.
for other ppl, the upgrade's been working fine in production for awhile now
with upstream releases, with early fedora tbird builds, and now the fedora
release pkgs.
for me, the lack of a long-overdue v102 update was 'costing' much more than not
...
on F36, thunderbird packages are still available in two major versions
dnf list --showduplicates thunderbird
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:09 ago on Sat 03 Sep 2022
07:36:45 AM EDT.
Available Packages
thunderbird.x86_64 91.7.0-1.fc36
fedora
thunderbird.x86_64
102.2.1-1.fc36 updates
older version's still easily installed,
dnf install thunderbird-91.7.0-1.fc36.x86_64
historical versions are still available, and quite easily installed &
functional, from
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/
ESL or not, how exactly was thunderbird 102 'pushed' to ppl's systems?
did they
enable autoupdates?
or,
click to allow the update?
if tbird's a critical update for 'you', you
do have backups of your tbird configs & mailstores?
keep up to date with thunderbird version progress/news/chengelogs/notes?
remembered that addons are not tbird or fedora issues, and checked
current/future compatibility of your addons, as well as whether they're well
maintained?
communicated issues/bugs/etc to the respective projects?
and
have waited to update until after checking/verifying that it works for
you?
and, in case none of that was done, since firefox/tbird major-version update
issues _are_ historically well-known (if unfortunate), you froze version
upgrades of tbird on your system
https://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/versionlock.html
to make sure that you're never surprised by an update you don't want/expect?
my $0.02.
_______________________________________________
devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
Fedora Code of Conduct:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Do not reply to spam, report it:
https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
