Hi Carsten, On Wed, 1 Jun 2016 21:34:31 +0200 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hello *, > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:30:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > mhh one problem could be that icedove unfortunately chose to use > > ~/.icedove for settings. > > > > That in turn seems to be stored in many places within the profile, not > > to talk about possible add-ons which may store that in encoded or > > binary form... > > > > So that's going to be difficult to migrate :-/ > > the userdir $/.icedove isn't a showstopper for the re-migration back to > Thunderbird. This will be a tricky part but not our biggest concern at > the moment. If someone wanted to work on that take a look at > > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/icedove.git/tree/mozilla/build/unix/mozilla.in > and > > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/icedove.git/tree/debian/patches/debian-hacks/Move-profile.patch > > Currently we haven't decided which new name to use. Christoph is also > providing earlybird (shredder) packages which we don't want to conflict. > > http://4949.de/~chris/shredder/ > > We have discussed a lot internally about of the removing the Debian branding > and a smooth way to make it happen. Christoph and myself are mostly busy > with other things and we working on the Icedove packages in our free time > so we are trying to be efficient with our work. The main focus is to get > actual versions for Jessie and Wheezy running. > > And with the new version 45.0 a new "race" hast started due some changes > happened upstream like supported compiler versions. But it looks good, we > can support also Wheezy with version 45.x. Thanks to Guido to figure > these things out! > > So what's goin on in past and why it seems to not going further? > > I started around the first beta version for the ESR 45 release to > implement the icedove-l10n and iceowl-l10n packages into the icedove > source package to get the various depended packages on the Icedove > binary packages in sync and make the future work easier. > I was able to finish this in 45.0~b4. To get this for all of us working > we need a working way to get multi tarballs handled with > git-buildpackage. There we needed the help of Guido to get a basic > support inside git-buildpackage as the Icedove source package is managed > by this. > > This is a more technical thing that's more or less easy to handle, but > we had to think and even we thinking about how to handle the renaming > inside the upcoming Stretch release (that's also a more technical > thing) but also how to use our time and energy in the maintenance of the > current Jessie and Wheezy release. So we have to take care of at least 3 > releases. > > Guido is also working in the LTS team and has began to coordinate such > questions together with the LTS and Security team. And happily the > Security team will accept also Thunderbird packages in upcoming Jessie > security updates. The LTS team will adopt the solution from the Security > team.
Any progress on this? Thanks, Emilio
