[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Bug#909000: Thunderbird 60 cannot be at stretch normal repository

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Wed 2018-10-10 17:30:33 +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> The good solution for this is to move Thunderbird 60 to
> stretch-backports instead of being at normal repository.
>
> Normal users will keep current Enigmail 2:1.9 , current Thunderbird 1:52
> and current GnuPG 2.1 and not unstable repositories.
>
> Other users will be allowed to use stretch-backports to upgrade to
> Thunderbird 1:60 , Enigmail 2:2.2 and GnuPG 2.2 when all available.
>
> No packages break, no Enigmail loss for unexperienced users.

i haven't heard anyone from debian say that they're up for
maintaining/supporting thunderbird 52 in stretch.  do you know anyone
who is volunteering for that task?

if there isn't anyone, then moving to TB 60 in stretch is probably
pretty important, while it also requires all the rest of the maintenance
work described upthread.

Software maintenance within the context of an active network and complex
upstreams is hard :(

    --dkg