Hello Amr,
Am 26.07.22 um 19:28 schrieb Amr Ibrahim:
I'm on Debian testing, and that means that security support is not
guaranteed nor prompt if the package is stuck in unstable for any
reason.
you can quite always install the package from unstable also in testing.
And as you wrote, it's testing, I think it is the nature of testing to
have versions in testing which might not be fully working at all the
time. And we need people which are using testing so any serious issue is
getting detected!
So, in order to mitigate this situation, I kindly request that a new
major version of Thunderbird be packaged in experimental rather than in
unstable. The reason is that: the first few releases of a new major
version are almost always buggy, and that prevents it from migrating to
testing in due time. Later releases can then be packaged in unstable
when it becomes stable enough. In the meantime, new releases of the
current major version can be packaged in unstable and migrate to
testing.
That is the same approach of upstream Thunderbird: they postpone the
upgrade to the new major version for the first few releases until it
become stable.
We do some similar strategy by using the previous ESR version for stable
and old-stable and providing (if possible and maintainer time permits)
the most recent ESR version in unstable and testing.
It makes no real sense to me putting recent ESR versions into
experimental, there is no user base for a broader testing of such versions.
I'm not able to do a packaging of the current versions due some
traveling, so it might look a bit unfortunate right now. Version 102.1.0
is ready for preparing and also 19.11.0 within the next days.
Thunderbird version 102.0.3 is only offered as direct download from
thunderbird.net and not as an upgrade from Thunderbird version 91 or
earlier. A future release will provide updates from earlier versions.
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.0.3/releasenotes/
As written above, users of testing should be aware of the things happen
in this release part. If you need a stable and always working
environment than you need to use stable.
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Regards
Carsten
