[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Thunderbird 68.1.1-1 uploaded to experimental (Follow up for: Re: Thunderbird 68.0~b1 uploaded to experimental, call for testing)

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hi,

after a really long time I was able to get my local peaces on TB 68
sorted out and could also import the recent version 68.1.1 into my local
tree.

After the usual "fight" with some non-free source files I was really a
bit surprised that in the end all went really smooth and more quickly
than expected! But a first testing with a fresh new profile for TB and
also further testing with my existing profile was working. Even the
German locale is now working again (see my previous email on this
topic). So I uploaded 1:68.1.1-1~exp1 to experimental yesterday in the
evening after some more testing.

Currently armhf, ppc64el is broken and also mipsel (what a surprise!).
Will need some investigation.

I'm more concerned about the API change and the impact that comes along
with TB 68.x.
No old legacy AddOns will work anymore without modifications, and we
have still a lot of AddOns in the archive.

> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/unable-install-add-on-extension-theme-thunderbird

The current Enigmail AddOn (2:2.0.12+ds1-1) in the archive is
incompatible, at least version 2.1 is needed to work with Thunderbird.
There are plenty of other AddOns we will need to detect so the
Thunderbird package can add them to Breaks. I think this would be the
best way, not like happen with version 60.x as users was getting
surprised to see installed but not working AddOns after the update.

One more important change is the impossibility to use system wide
installed dictionaries. At least I haven't found a way to still use
them. If this can't get changed all the recommends on the dictionary
packages will get useless. If someone can contribute something here to
solve this I'm happy to take this help!

I also dropped the transitional lighning-l10n packages. Buster is
released for a while and also TB 60.x is now EOL. We will need to keep
the transitional packages in Buster, Stretch and Jessie anyway.

So finally again, please use and test the Thunderbird package in
experimental!
If possible fix build issues.
Send patches if you have improvements. I will mostly miss any merge
requests on Salsa!
Detect non working AddOns that are packed for the archive.

A side note, due ongoing business trips until the end of the year I will
have even more limited time to work on known issues. I'm happy if
someone is willing to step up as a co-Maintainer for Thunderbird.

Thanks!

-- 
Regards
Carsten


Am 17.06.19 um 09:00 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Hi,
> 
> thanks to some injury on my left leg (no nothing serious) I had enough
> free time the past days. And some of this I used to have a look at the
> recent released version of Thunderbird 68.0b1 with a POV to packaging it
> for Debian.
> Just to remember, Thunderbird 68.x will be the next ESR round for
> Thunderbird. That is mainly the reason why I'm writing this email.
> 
> I was able to collect all parts together and I could to build this
> version as Debian packages.
> The language packages (thunderbird-l10-*) are known as not functional
> while writing because I was needed to use currently the packages from
> the previous beta release. Looks like upstream has again changed their
> build of Thunderbird and the resulting structure in their CDN. I"ll need
> to have a closer look at this in the next weeks.
> But the l10n support isn't something really critical for now. So I
> decided to not keep holding back a upload to experimental because of the
> known broken l10n packages.
> 
> I uploaded yesterday the first version of the round TB 68.x to
> experimental, by this email I want to do a call for testing of this
> version especially for the integration of other packaged extensions. One
> of the for really critical extensions is Enigmail and even the current
> upstream version of Enigmail isn't working.
> 
> @Daniel, maybe you know more about the circumstances why Enigmail isn't
> working (yet)?
> 
> And as always, there are plenty of broken RC platforms visible in the
> build log.
> If someone can provides patches that will fix any of them I'm happy to
> apply them.
> 
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=thunderbird&suite=experimental
>