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On Monday, January 17th, 2022 at 9:44 AM, Nicholas von Klitzing
<nicho...@nvk.pm> wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
>
> It seems that this issue is describing the new fix that is needed:
>
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/33734
>
> Only a simple patch would be necessary:
>
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/acat/tor-browser/-/commit/92f480c30178c0847e6866a4115a9393f1d49a28
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Nicholas
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Friday, January 14th, 2022 at 2:52 PM, Maxime Devos maximede...@telenet.be
> wrote:
>
> > Nicholas von Klitzing via Bug reports for GNU Guix schreef op vr 14-01-
> >
> > 2022 om 12:02 [+0000]:
> >
> > > A brief follow up:
> > >
> > > It seems the ~/.icedove folder is not used by icedove (it was probably a
> > > relic of when I used icedove-wayland).
> > >
> > > Now looking into ~./thunderbird instead I see several more profiles.
> > >
> > > nicholas@guix14 ~/.thunderbird$ ls
> > > bv7r86h9.default/ installs.ini profiles.ini
> > > gdmykixq.default-default-1/ k6sjw3jm.default-default/
> > > nicholas@guix14 ~/.thunderbird$ cat profiles.ini
> > > [Profile2]
> > > [...]
> > > [Profile1]
> > > [...]
> > > [Profile0]
> > > [...]
> > > [Install281FC43567D8867D]
> > > [General]
> > > [...]
> > > [Install3F4F07DFB18472B1]
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >
> > > Launching icedove with `icedove -p` and then iterating through the 3
> > > listed profiles all leads to a blank profile, except for default-default.
> > > The default-default profile contains all of my mail account and settings.
> > >
> > > I now set default-default to be my main profile (resolving my issue) but
> > > I doubt this is what users expect the software to do.
> > >
> > > Is it possible that icedove creates a new profile on upgrades and sets it
> > > as default? I definitely did not manually create 3 profiles.
> >
> > Maybe take a look at the following code in 'icedove':
> >
> > ;; Fixes issue where each installation directory generates its
> >
> > own profile.
> >
> > ;; See e.g.
> >
> > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31457
> >
> > (add-after 'patch-source-shebangs 'fix-profile-setting
> >
> > (lambda _
> >
> > (substitute* "comm/mail/moz.configure"
> >
> > (("MOZ_DEDICATED_PROFILES, True")
> >
> > "MOZ_DEDICATED_PROFILES, False"))
> >
> > #t))
> >
> > Seems like this was fixed at some point but the fix broke?
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Maxime.From 300eb9cc705f4529672f900bd107ba1dc7b69ad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicholas von Klitzing <nicho...@nvk.pm>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:46:36 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: icedove: stop per-install profile generation.
* gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm (): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm b/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm
index 27a9d099ce..bc7f32131b 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm
@@ -1371,8 +1371,8 @@ (define-public icedove
(add-after 'patch-source-shebangs 'fix-profile-setting
(lambda _
(substitute* "comm/mail/moz.configure"
- (("MOZ_DEDICATED_PROFILES, True")
- "MOZ_DEDICATED_PROFILES, False"))
+ (("MOZ_NORMANDY, True")
+ "MOZ_NORMANDY, False"))
#t))
(add-after 'prepare-thunderbird-sources 'rename-to-icedove
(lambda _
--
2.34.0
