On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:20:48AM +0000, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 24.07.2017 23:04, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > It looks like you're doing a lot of work that is completely out of scope > > for creating packages for Debian/Devuan, > > Not quite. Of course, I don't wanna compile-in things that aren't > necessary here (eg. the media stuff). But that lead to lots of problems, > so I'm now getting my hands dirty and try to fix at the root. > > > and that is work that sounds > > like should be discussed with the thunderbird crowd. > > Nope, they directed me to this list, as these things aren't in tbird's > own tree, but generic mozilla. > > > (Also, there's already a thunderbird package in Debian) > > An old one.
Debian has 52esr. > And it still contains lots of dead weight, I'd like to get rid of. Which is out of scope for packaging something for Debian. > When I'm done w/ that, I'll start w/ things I've been planning for > quite some time, eg. moving mailbox handling to external upas service, > all credential related stuff to factotum, move contact handling to > external programs, etc, etc. > > But before I can start with that, I first need a clean working base. So, in fact, you want to fork thunderbird, you should just have said so from the beginning. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
