[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Moving to next Thunderbird ESR version 115.x

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hi there,

time moves on and the next ESR version 115 for FF and TB will be 
released soon. More information on planned releases as always are 
visible in the Firefox Release Calendar [1].

I've prepared a first beta version of 115.0 as 1:115.0~b4-1 [2].

So, as I did this in my announcing emails before for any upcoming ESR 
versions of Thunderbird I like to ask here again for testing the version 
of Thunderbird in experimental!

If you want to do this please remember to first backup your old user 
profiles! :-)
The profiles can't be exchanged between the old ESR and new ESR 
versions! Profiles are normally not backwards compatible.

Currently some of the RC architectures can't be build successfully [3], 
I expect the new GCC/Clang versions have shown some incompatibilities in 
the source. Typically I look out for patches in the FF packaging, but 
Mike hasn't build a version 115.0 for FF yet.
If you are familiar with GCC or Clang please feel free to report a 
upstream bug report on the Bugzilla instance of Mozilla if this is 
appropriate.

At least packages for amd64 could be build and I expect that quite every 
user of this list has a amd64 machine somehow, so please test out the TB 
version and test also any additional packages around a packaged TB.

I've planned to build more new beta versions of TB 115.0 once they are 
released.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
[2] 
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1438415/accepted-thunderbird-11150b4-1-source-into-experimental/
[3] 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=thunderbird&suite=experimental

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Regards
Carsten