I asked quidam on irc and his answer was that he planned on doing it but
there were some difficulties, and that it was a low priority item for him.
I note that RMS suggested to simply rename Thunderbird to Icedove, not to
remove it altogether...
Yeah I don't get the hurry either. A nice transition to Icedove would've
been appreciated. It's not very nice to remove a major and widely used
package from an LTS version without providing a freed version as replacement.
Oh, now I see that Thunderbird has indeed been removed from Trisquel 6 :(. I
do understand the rationale behind that decision, but am disappointed that
there is no way to install Icedove on the only supported release of Trisquel
as of today. Is there somehope of having Icedove on 6?
I don't see any change in Trisquel 6. Are we talking about a Trisquel 7
change?