thunderbird / icedove directory snafu ?

[Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it>]

Hi.

I am aware TB in Debian went through a rebranding to Icedove and back to 
the original name because... well, reasons.

The new userprofile directory is supposed to be .thunderbird and the 
system checks whether .icedove still exists and it's not a symlink: in 
this case it will abort and display an error.

Then I zap .icedove and start TB again. All is well. I shut it down and 
repeat: again the same error and program quits. It re-created .icedove!

Basically, the keep the TB version currently in testing happy, I need 
.icedove to be a symlink to .thunderbird even if I have completed the 
transition long ago.

Does it make sense?
Is it a (possibly known) bug?

Thanks,
Andrea.