Bug#851989: release.debian.org: de-branding Icedove, Thunderbird packages in Stretch?
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Dear release team,
as you know the Iceweasel package was moving back to use the offizial
Mozilla Branding, that was reintroducing the Firefox packages.
Sylvestre Ledru was requesting the same for Icedove, please see report
#816679.
For various reasons it tooks a painful long time to follow that request
and do the needed preparation and basic testing of all. Unfortunately
the new de-branded thunderbird packages couldn't be uploaded before 5th
Dec 2016.
In the near past we also was fighting with the binutils issue on the
mips* platforms and focused on preparation for stable-security uploads.
Anyway, Christoph was able to upload a first shoot of the new
thunderbird packages into experimental on 31th Dec 2016. Some days ago
Christoph has uploaded a new version with some fixups to experimental.
We have planed to do a d-d-a this weekend about the relaunch of
Thunderbird to get some more testers.
We also would like to see the migrated Thunderbird packages going into
the stretch release. But as we are now after the 5th Jan we need to
figure out the possibility with the release team. So I like to ask
what's the release team is thinking about Thunderbird for stretch. We
believe it's still possible to do that.
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/816679
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: armhf
Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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