Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

[Jape Person <japers@comcast.net>]

On 08/11/2017 06:27 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:43 PM, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
> > Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote:
> >
> > > > After this upgrade
> > > >
> > > > thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1)
> > > >
> > > > Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because
> > > > portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until the
> > > > window is resized. Is anyone else seeing this?
> >
> > > Yes, see https://bugs.debian.org/871629.
> >
> > Confirmation: Rebuilding 1:52.2.1-4 with gcc-6/g++-6 as the compiler
> > fixes the problem.
>
> You can also download thunderbird and its addons from
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/icedove/1%3A52.2.1-4/, selecting
> your architecture
>
> See what packages have you installed from icedove them:
>
>   aptitude search '?and(?source-package(icedove),?installed)'
>
> Download to Download/icedove and install with apt install
> ./Download/icedove/*.deb
>
> Regards

I was just getting frustrated enough to do the recompile. Ugh. I'm old, 
have poor eyesight, and was not anxious to do that while recovering from 
pneumonia.

I'll give it a shot.

Thank you much for the reminder. I used to love to do things the hard 
way, but that's not my thing any more. Just spent today doing a system 
installation and configuration for a system that lost a solid state drive.

JP