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Re: Replacing thunderbird with icedove



Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2006-11-04 Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:
>> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>> On 2006-11-04 Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> wrote:
>>>> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>>>>> afaict there are currently no hints for getting rid of thunderbird and
>>>>> letting icedove in instead.
> 
>>>> No, I didn't add hints because thunderbird source package still leaves
>>>> packages which are not in icedove source package (as meta transition package).
> [...] 
>  
>>> just to be sure I understand you correctly: d-release will not let
>>> icedove into testing until it ships transition packages for every
>>> binary package shipped in thunderbird. i.e. the following packages
>>> must be added to icedove:
>>>  thunderbird-dbg
>>>  thunderbird-dev
>>>  thunderbird-gnome-support
> 
>> No, I said that *I* didn't want to add hints yet untill at least is discussed
>> why they shouldn't be provided...
> 
> The three missing packages were never part of a stable release afaict.

That's a valid point. Personally I'd rather have transition packages anyway,
but removal hint added.

Cheers

Luk

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