[needs-packaging] Thunderbird 3

[Philipp Dreimann]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Please package Thunderbird 3 for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx
http://www.mozillamessaging.com

[pinzia (pinzia)]

please package thunderbird 3 for lucid.
Thunderbird 3 is stable now http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/about/press/archive/2009-12-08-01
faq http://www.spreadthunderbird.com/node/610

[Philipp Dreimann (philipp-dreimann-deactivatedaccount)]

https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa

theres no "3.0" stable but the current thunderbird-3.0 snapshot works pretty well.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Philipp:
Thunderbird-3.0 has been released as stable for a while now. However our PPA that you listed above is for pre release of 3.0.1 (security update.
I spoke to Alexander yesterday and we will be packaging it for Lucid.

[sbaragnaus (sbaragnaus)]

Please package for Karmic. Thunderbird 3.0 is a great update.

Thanks.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This will make it in Lucid however it will not be backported for <Lucid at this time, We will most likely have a PPA for other Ubuntu releases.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I'm working on packaging this. Hopefully before 2010. :)

[michael37 (misha37)]

Please note that Thunderbird 3 does not work with current Lightning 0.9. It requires Lightning 1.0. I opened bug# 500160 on this request.

[Heimen Stoffels (vistaus)]

@Micah: What's the status of the packaging at the moment?

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

I hope to have it ready to go this week. You'll see the bug closed when it's uploaded.

[Michael Horgan (mhorgan)]

Hope it gets released soon.

[Sean Dague (sdague)]

Thunderbird 3 is such a big step forward in performance and search that it would be a shame if it didn't make lucid.

[Attila Hammer (hammera)]

I don't no this is help or not, but I am using Thunderbird 3.0 stable
version with Lucid, and don't see any problem.
I am installed Thunderbird 3.0 hungarian localized version with
Ubuntuzilla. I am using i386 architecture. But, I am only one person. :-):-)

You wroted:
"Thunderbird 3 is such a big step forward in performance and search that
it would be a shame if it didn't make lucid."
I am interesting only: have a problem with do difficulter with packaging
or destroiing the stability purpose with Lucid?

Attila

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

It seems like people are jumpy so I will comment. The bug is targeted
for Lucid Alpha 3 which is the last Alpha due in late Feb. Thunderbird
3 will be in there. I thought I would have had more time at the end of
last year, but that was not the case. Lucid will have it.

On 01/13/2010 11:25 PM, Attila Hammer wrote:
> I don't no this is help or not, but I am using Thunderbird 3.0 stable
> version with Lucid, and don't see any problem.
> I am installed Thunderbird 3.0 hungarian localized version with
> Ubuntuzilla. I am using i386 architecture. But, I am only one person. :-):-)
>
> You wroted:
> "Thunderbird 3 is such a big step forward in performance and search that
> it would be a shame if it didn't make lucid."
> I am interesting only: have a problem with do difficulter with packaging
> or destroiing the stability purpose with Lucid?
>
> Attila
>
>

[Michael Horgan (mhorgan)]

Also Mozilla is going to release version 3.0.1 so you might as well post the latest version.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Reassigning to asac due to time constraints.

[Lee Garrett (leegarrett)]

Hi there,

I could help with packaging, but I don't want to duplicate the effort. How far is the progress of this? Are there any problems which need to be resolved?

--Lee

[Michael Horgan (mhorgan)]

Firefox v3.6 should be the default web browser in Lucid since it's pretty close to being finalized. It should be finalized very soon which should give it enough time to be added into Lucid.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

we aim to get this into lucid this week still.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

and yes, the firefox 3.6 will also be in lucid (not that its on topic in this bug)

[Brian Shaw (perturbedpenguin)]

Any idea as to whether it will be possible for TB3 to replace Evolution in Lucid? I doubt the devs will go for it since it is an LTS release but I am curious if anyone here has any info on this possibility. Sorry for being slightly off topic.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This isn't the place for that question. You might want to file
something on http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

On 01/20/2010 07:13 PM, Perturbed Penguin wrote:
> Any idea as to whether it will be possible for TB3 to replace Evolution
> in Lucid? I doubt the devs will go for it since it is an LTS release but
> I am curious if anyone here has any info on this possibility. Sorry for
> being slightly off topic.
>
>

[Alexandru Bolboaca (alex-boly)]

I honestly don't understand why it takes so long to release the latest versions of thunderbird and firefox for ubuntu. Is there any answer to this question available somewhere?

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Well xulrunner applications like firefox & thunderbird are really huge, take a look at the current packaging it is huge & complex plus with such a major release you need to get the languages & legal cross-checks right. And it takes a while to build and test. It's a big job to tackle and the availability of human hours is the constrain. (Technologically it is possible). Just be patient and wait =) or help testing the daily ppa.

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaubitz)]

Hi,

I'm not sure whether it youwas already mentioned here but please consider disabling the Global Search and the downloading of IMAP messages in Thunderbird 3.0 by default. I know it's really a neat feature but it may also create loads of needless traffic on local networks when people have alot of mail in their inboxes. Also, it keeps the computer busy when indexing all the mail, especially a caveat on slower machines.

Any users who need it can enable it again over the menus. Furthermore, it would be nice to have a checkbox to enable/disable Global Indexing/Mail Downloading for IMAP in the setup wizard which is shown on first run of Thunderbird 3.0.

Adrian

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

@Adrian

Please file a new bug with this request.

On 02/03/2010 05:52 AM, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure whether it youwas already mentioned here but please
> consider disabling the Global Search and the downloading of IMAP
> messages in Thunderbird 3.0 by default. I know it's really a neat
> feature but it may also create loads of needless traffic on local
> networks when people have alot of mail in their inboxes. Also, it keeps
> the computer busy when indexing all the mail, especially a caveat on
> slower machines.
>
> Any users who need it can enable it again over the menus. Furthermore,
> it would be nice to have a checkbox to enable/disable Global
> Indexing/Mail Downloading for IMAP in the setup wizard which is shown on
> first run of Thunderbird 3.0.
>
>
> Adrian
>
>

[Christian Loos (cloos)]

Just read that Thunderbird 3.1 will be, if the are not problems, released on April 6. So maybe if Lucid is released, there is allready a new minor version of Thunderbird available.
But I think, as the Lucid and Thunderbrid 3.1 release dates are so close, there is no chance to get Thunderbird 3.1 into Lucid!?!

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule there are only 7 dni left for upgrading Thunderbird in Lucid.

[Nicola Ferralis (feranick)]

Am I wrong or it seems that Firefox 3.6 in lucid doesn't rely on xulrunner? Could the same approach be used for thunderbird 3? In my modest opinion that might help speeding up porting TB 3.0 to lucid...

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

On 02/15/2010 01:44 PM, feranick wrote:
> Am I wrong or it seems that Firefox 3.6 in lucid doesn't rely on
> xulrunner?
Correct.
> Could the same approach be used for thunderbird 3? In my
> modest opinion that might help speeding up porting TB 3.0 to lucid...
>
>
Thunderbird has had it's own xulrunner in-source copy for a while. It
won't speed it up...anyways, almost done.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

thunderbird (3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Release 3.0 (THUNDERBIRD_3_0_RELEASE)
    - LP: #50902 - Thunderbird displays useless dialog
    - LP: #52667 - Thunderbird doesn't support RFC-2369
    - LP: #49033 - Doesn't recognize upper case extension (.JPG)
    - LP: #56465 - Per folder column widths
    - LP: #68456 - CTRL-Shift-K bound to 2 functions
    - LP: #79337 - Typo in Server Information for Add Account Wizard
    - LP: #1084 - No scroll on full headers list
    - LP: #62071 - Middle click on scrollbar pastes instead of jumping
    - LP: #119358 - Weak default authentication mode
    - LP: #120672 - No option to empty junk folder with right click
    - LP: #96566 - movemail doesn't work with default privs
    - LP: #122529 - Non-Thunderbird IMAP folders not visible to Thunderbird
    - LP: #241276 - Not able to paste image into thunderbird compose window
    - LP: #244635 - scrollboxes scroll to offset 0 when resized
    - LP: #259387 - "Edit Message as New" broken for eml messages
    - LP: #120281 - Editing a message from the drafts folder leaves line breaks
    - LP: #115484 - Dialogue boxes too large for 1024x768 resolution
    - LP: #320034 - Mail with self referencing headers breaks threading
    - LP: #160794 - shortcuts different in windows and linux
    - LP: #280987 - thunderbird keeps asking a password when working off-line
    - LP: #369150 - Thunderbird splits email addresses with non-ascii characters
                    and a comma in From: field
    - LP: #135066 - Thunderbird doesn't use Ubuntu icon theme
    - LP: #297301 - after authentication error the password is forgotten
    - LP: #487541 - thunderbird-bin crashed with SIGSEGV (AFS filesystem)
    - LP: #485224 - Thunderbird saves double attachment file name endings on
                    FAT32 and NTFS
    - LP: #482496 - When using SCIM ANTHY, autosaving fails, and then get asked
                    about sending in UTF-8

  [ Fabien Tassin < <email address hidden>> ]
  * Add build-depends on autoconf2.13, autotolls-dev, mozilla-devscripts
    libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.12), libstartup-notification0-dev, libbz2-dev,
    libpixman-1-dev, libdbus-1-dev (>= 1.0.0), libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.60),
    libhal-dev (>= 0.5.8), libasound2-dev, libreadline5-dev | libreadline-dev,
    libkrb5-dev
  * Update build-depends minimums for libx11-dev (>= 2:1.0),
    libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.12), zlib1g-dev (>= 1:1.2.3), libpng12-dev (>= 1.2.0),
    libjpeg62-dev (>= 6b), libcairo2-dev (>= 0.5.8), libgnome2-dev (>= 2.16),
    libgnomevfs2-dev (>= 1:2.16), libgnomeui-dev (>= 2.16),
    libnss3-dev (>= 3.12.0~1.9b3)
  * Bump standards version to 3.8.0
  * Replace ${Source-Version} by ${binary:Version} in control file
    - update debian/control
  * Bump requirement for system nspr to >= 4.8 since Mozilla bug 492464 landed
  * Bump requirement for system nss to >= 3.12.3 since Mozilla bug 485052 landed
  * Use in-source hunspell when hunspell 1.2 is not available
  * Add conditionnal support for --with-libxul-sdk controlled by
    $(USE_SYSTEM_XUL)
    - update debian/rules
  * Add postinst/prerm scripts to maintain ...

[Attila Hammer (hammera)]

Thank you Very Mutch.

Attila

[michael37 (misha37)]

Any chance for the thunderbird-stable PPA release similar to a firefox-stable PPA?

[Nicolás Lichtmaier (niqueco)]

So? Where is it?

[Christoph Korn (c-korn)]

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+queue?queue_state=0&queue_text=thunderbird

[Nicolás Lichtmaier (niqueco)]

Thanks! =)

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Yes, we want to get a little more testing first.

On 02/19/2010 12:21 PM, michael37 wrote:
> Any chance for the thunderbird-stable PPA release similar to a firefox-
> stable PPA?
>
>

[Michael Horgan (mhorgan)]

I have the new packages and it seems to be ok. Don't know why 3.0 was released instead of 3.0.2. I think we should be getting 3.0.2 pretty soon as it fixes some security holes.

[Giles Weaver (gweaver)]

+1 for having a thunderbird-stable PPA release.

[Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek (mgol)]

Isn't Thunderbird management in Mozilla going to undergo similar changes in management? Then stable PPA is not needed.

[Mossroy (mossroy)]

Could version 3.0.3 of thunderbird be packaged?
It fixes a lot of issues :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?field0-0-0=cf_status_thunderbird30;query_format=advanced;type0-0-0=equals;value0-0-0=.3-fixed for version 3.0.3
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?field0-0-0=cf_status_thunderbird30;type0-0-1=equals;field0-0-1=cf_status_191;query_format=advanced;value0-0-1=.8-fixed;type0-0-0=equals;value0-0-0=.2-fixed for version 3.0.2
I personally encounter https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540554 , that has been fixed in 3.0.2

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Please see bug 530405.

On 03/05/2010 04:25 PM, Mossroy wrote:
> Could version 3.0.3 of thunderbird be packaged?
> It fixes a lot of issues :
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?field0-0-0=cf_status_thunderbird30;query_format=advanced;type0-0-0=equals;value0-0-0=.3-fixed for version 3.0.3
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?field0-0-0=cf_status_thunderbird30;type0-0-1=equals;field0-0-1=cf_status_191;query_format=advanced;value0-0-1=.8-fixed;type0-0-0=equals;value0-0-0=.2-fixed for version 3.0.2
> I personally encounter https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540554 , that has been fixed in 3.0.2
>
> ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #540554
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540554
>
>

[rschlitz (rschlitz)]

Ubuntu 10.04 amd64:
Thunderbird 3.04 released on 15 April does not configure with the existing settings. It wants to setup as new.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

@rschlitz

Please ask a Question at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu or join us
in #ubuntu-mozillateam on freenode for help with this.

On 04/15/2010 04:07 PM, rschlitz wrote:
> Ubuntu 10.04 amd64:
> Thunderbird 3.04 released on 15 April does not configure with the existing settings. It wants to setup as new.
>
>

[michael37 (misha37)]

Thanks you for release thunderbird-stable ppa. A little note would have been appreciated, but it's all good.

Updated https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThunderbirdNewVersion aka https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThunderbirdNewVersion

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Thunderbird 3.0.4 and thunderbird-locale packages for Baltix 9.10 (backported from lucid) are available at official Baltix GNU/Linux repository:
https://launchpad.net/~baltix-members/+archive