Hello Julien, On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 05:32:01PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > I guess it's better to do that now rather than after the release. What > are the effects of the rebranding on reverse dependencies, if any?
thanks for your positive answer in principal about that! And yes, we think also the switch is done better now than some weeks after the relase. I'm running Thunderbird packages for about at least 1/2 year in all versions since 45.1.0. I haven't had any problems on that and haven't seen any non working reverse depended packages. But I can't test all xul-ext-* packages and other named plugins that can be found in the repository. As far as I've seen most of the maintainers of such packages have already done the extension the the package description with the adoption of the Provides/Enhances and the Depends field of their packages. 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. The typical extensions I'm using are working so far. Normaly I've installed enigmail, xul-ext-adblock-plus, xul-ext-compactheader, xul-ext-dispmua. I don't know a binary based reverse package that is using header and libs from icedove-dev or thunderbird-dev package. And I haven't done a look in detail into the the libraries in /usr/lib/icedove-devel/sdk/lib/ and /usr/lib/thunderbird-devel/sdk/lib/ Namely there are four libararies there: libldap60.so, libldif60.so, libprldap60.so, libxul.so So I can't say right now if there are some potentially pitfall inside. But that should be easy to check. Regards Carsten