[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Moving to next Thunderbird ESR version 102.x

[Carsten Schoenert]

I've done some more thinking about going over to the next steps 
regarding getting Thunderbird 102.x into unstable and testing and finaly 
inot -security.

The situation now is different to 91.x a year before.

Last year version 91.x was released within the freeze period for the 
bullseye release. Means the required build tools and their versions were 
also frozen to the available versions in the archive. This isn't the 
case now.

So my plans are now like this.

Thunderbird 91.11.0 and 102.0 got released in the past week. I've 
uploaded 91.11.0-1 yesterday into unstable. Uploads for -security will 
follow today.
On thunderbird-drivers list MZLNA informed about planned fixes for 102.x 
that are now staged into 103.0b2 first but will go into 102.0.1 probably 
next week. Once 102.0.1 is ready the automatic update rate from 91.x to 
102.x will get increased by MZLNA to nearly 100%.
So I'll wait for this newer version before I do prepare this version for 
uploading into unstable.

There will also be a 91.12.0 which I intend to prepare and upload into 
-security. This will provide more time for potential bug fixing on 102.x 
before working on the new ESR series for -security. This requires again 
updated build tools in the archive!

Am 18.06.22 um 18:22 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Hi again,
> 
> Am 16.06.22 um 19:27 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
>> There are no big outstanding issues I'm aware of, currently I needed to
>> drop a patch from Simon McVittie about unset MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER [3] due
>> the upstream modifications in that area. I'll ask Simon if he can update
>> the old patch again.
> 
> Simon answered my question about a potential rebase of his previous
> patch contribution quickly an pointed me to the upstream commit [1] from
> Emilio that makes the patch not needed any more as Mozilla added the
> functionality by their own.
> 
> So the current state of an beta version, that will become the next ESR
> version wasn't, better than aver before! We will need obviously again
> updated build tools for the current Debian stable release.
> 
> [1] https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/58d678ccbab1
> 

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Regards
Carsten