On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:19:14PM +0200, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > On Di, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:05:48 -0400, Wolfgang Sourdeau wrote: > > It has been decided in Debian that Thunderbird/Icedove 3 was stable > > enough that version 2 would be obsoleted, although it's technically > > possible to have both versions concurrently installed on the same > > system. While updating my system and wrongfully updating Icedove in > > the process, I have noticed that the wonderful migration process has > > deleted all my 2.0 profiles. > > what are your opinion to avoid this? To make a automated backup before > migrate from 2.0 -> 3.0? > > > This bug report is probably not very constructive but I am quite > > pissed to have lost all those. I am lucky to exclusively use IMAP as > > my transport protocol but I did have some large emails stored locally > > and that I did lose. > > You are the first user, who report one of this fault. Should all other > use IMAP and didn't endangered by this problem? > > > I hereby vote for the proper repackaging of Icedove 2, especially > > since 3.0 has a loosy and unsafe migration process. > > Is it really useful to have 2 different versions of Icedove in Debian? > I think it would be more helpful to analyse your upgrade problem.
More importantly, who is going to support the already unsupported upstream 2.0 release? Keeping 2.0 is a definite no go. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
