On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:35:52PM -0500, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Thunderbird is back in Debian! We also renamed other related packages to > use official names, e.g. iceowl-extension -> lightning.
While I stick to Iceweasel, this isn't anywhere as visible for Icedove so I'll grudgingly accept this one. :รพ > With the change to the official Mozilla branding the users profile(s) will > also > be changing from '$HOME/.icedove' to '$HOME/.thunderbird' so we need to > migrate > the profile folder. This is done by /usr/bin/thunderbird, a wrapper script, > which does the following things during initial startup: > > * Copy the contents of the old profile folder into the new folder > ~/.icedove_moved_by_thunderbird_starter I see no deletion step. This is bad for a couple of reasons: * my .icedove takes north of 2GB (mostly imap cache of multiple servers), one of my users clocks above 7GB for a single server * if you have some sensitive mail and delete it, you really don't want a copy to stick forever. Especially if you then go through a border... Meow! -- Autotools hint: to do a zx-spectrum build on a pdp11 host, type: ./configure --host=zx-spectrum --build=pdp11
