Bryan, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423363

Thunderbird only does major releases based off Firefox ESR's. Firefox 52
ESR still supports GTK2 plugins besides Flash. Therefore, I was thinking
it would be safer to drop the gtk2 dependency in the current Thunderbird
Beta's or in the next major release which I believe will be Thunderbird
60 and so it will be too late for Ubuntu 18.04 (but not 18.04.1).
(Earlier, 59 was scheduled to be the next ESR and might have been early
enough.)

We could
1. look at doing the change anyway in Ubuntu 18.04, or
2. ship a Thunderbird Beta, or
3. just wait for 18.04.1 and 18.10 to drop gtk2 from the default install, or
4. not include Thunderbird in the default install

See https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar (note that a new
major Thunderbird release is expected to a bit late compared to the
Firefox ESR release)

** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1423363
   https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423363

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