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

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hi there,

it's again time to look at the upcoming next ESR version for 
Thunderbird. This will be the version numbers 102.x according to the 
release calendar. [1]

It took me some time to get a first version ready for the experimental 
archive within this upstream development cycle for Thunderbird.
Most of time the build dependencies were not recent enough within the 
Debian archive, and also the changes of build setup were hard to 
understand due the now hard cut between the old and new versions.

I was able to get version 102.0~b4 ready for experimental and did the 
upload within the past days [2]. I'm a bit surprised to see that all RC 
platforms did build well. yeah!

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.

So, as I did this in my announcing emails before for next ESR versions 
of Thunderbird I like to ask here also 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 not backwards compatible.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar
[2] 
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1335511/accepted-thunderbird-11020b4-1-source-into-experimental/
[3] 
https://salsa.debian.org/mozilla-team/thunderbird/-/commit/c97416b2516997700770d865a1c7c6e6cbda7c6c#d588ab58b86c23b47f7238a9fb9c6e2a9e80fcd0

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Regards
Carsten