Bug#856490: Thunderbird fails to start

2017-03-09 Thread Andrea Stacchiotti
Thanks Chris, your patch fixed it (the comment in line 198 can stay). Andrea On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:12:44 + Chris Taylor wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:48:00 +0100 Andrea Stacchiotti > wrote: > > Indeed, this "fix" is a nightmare (replying to this bug report has been > > a nontrivial task).

Bug#856490: Thunderbird fails to start

2017-03-08 Thread Chris Taylor
On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 21:48:00 +0100 Andrea Stacchiotti wrote: Indeed, this "fix" is a nightmare (replying to this bug report has been a nontrivial task). My Thunderbird refuses to start if I have: * Neither .icedove nor .thunderbird * Only .thunderbird And the migration somehow put a .thunderbir

Bug#856490: Thunderbird fails to start

2017-03-07 Thread Andrea Stacchiotti
Indeed, this "fix" is a nightmare (replying to this bug report has been a nontrivial task). My Thunderbird refuses to start if I have: * Neither .icedove nor .thunderbird * Only .thunderbird And the migration somehow put a .thunderbird inside the .icedove when I put an empty .icedove folder. Sor

Bug#856490: thunderbird fails to start if there is a ~/.icedove/ directory (or symlink)

2017-03-07 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Hi, I think that the fix for this bug is actually wrong. ~/.icedove folder is not existing on my machine (the migration has already been done) and the wrapper is complaining that it exists and that something is wrong. This is preventing users to start thunderbird from the menu/.desktop file

Bug#856490: thunderbird fails to start if there is a ~/.icedove/ directory (or symlink)

2017-03-01 Thread Debian/GNU
On 03/01/2017 04:50 PM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Hello IOhannes, > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:56:37PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > >> However, I'm rather unhappy with the currect state of the migration from the >> old >> ~/.icedove/ profile to the new ~/.thunderbird/ profile. > > we

Bug#856490: thunderbird fails to start if there is a ~/.icedove/ directory (or symlink)

2017-03-01 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Hello IOhannes, On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:56:37PM +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote: > However, I'm rather unhappy with the currect state of the migration from the > old > ~/.icedove/ profile to the new ~/.thunderbird/ profile. we know. There are other bug reports that are also complaining abou

Bug#856490: thunderbird fails to start if there is a ~/.icedove/ directory (or symlink)

2017-03-01 Thread Debian/GNU
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:45.7.1-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, thanks for bringing back the unbranded thunderbird. However, I'm rather unhappy with the currect state of the migration from the old ~/.icedove/ profile to the new ~/.thunderbird/ profile. My ~/.icedove/ profile is ab