Bug#851989: release.debian.org: de-branding Icedove, Thunderbird packages in Stretch?
On 25/01/17 22:49, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> One more minor note,
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 08:07:02AM +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> ...
>> So maybe some extension may break now simply because the package
>> dependencies are now to strict. Such packages should be easy to find as
>> if the icedove package is referenced the thunderbird package needed to
>> be provided as well. Christoph could (and should) address such problems
>> in his announcement.
>
> this statement is not fully true from a backview.
> We need to ship the transitional icedove package for Stretch at all
> times so a dependency on 'icedove' will end in the reverse dependency on
> 'thunderbird' and the extension will work. For Stretch+1 we need to proof
> the xul-ext packages for depending on thunderbird then.
>
> Christoph will check which reverse depends on icedove-dev we have.
emilio@tatooine:~$ build-rdeps icedove-dev
WARNING: dose-extra >= 4.0 is not installed. Falling back to old unreliable
behaviour.
Reverse Build-depends in main:
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calendar-exchange-provider
sogo-connector
Found a total of 2 reverse build-depend(s) for icedove-dev.
Cheers,
Emilio
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