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Hello Robert,

On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 05:25:22PM +0100, Robert Pommrich wrote:
> After a dist-upgrade from stretch to buster with thunderbird installed
> in version 68.2.2-1~deb9u1 and being upgraded to version
> 68.2.2-1~deb10u1 thunderbird shows a message at the start:
> 
> "A newer version of Thunderbird may have made changes to your profile which 
> are no longer
> compatible with this older version.
> Use this profile only with that newer version, or create a new profile for 
> this installation of
> Thunderbird. Creating a new profile requires setting up your accounts, 
> calendars and add-ond again."
> 
> This is strange and should not happen, as the version of Thunderbird
> is practically the same.

this usaly happen if users have used some pre-built version from
Mozilla. Seeing this message isn't something you can blame the
Thunderbird package from Debian as you have used non packaged software
on your own.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unable-launch-older-version-profile

Please adjust your local profile settings by reading the ressource I've
linked above.

Regards
Carsten

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