On 2017-02-08 16:23, Carsten Schoenert wrote: >> PS: do you plan to rename the source package to thunderbird, too? > > Yes, this is planned. But probaly after the Stretch release. Otherwise > we may conflict with apt-listchanges and the wanted pop-up for the > change of the icedove package.
You could continue building the transitional packages from src:icedove (so icedove.NEWS will be shown as intended) and only move the new content-bearing thunderbird packages to src:thunderbird. IMO that would make maintenance over stretch lifetime easier ... than having src:icedove (non-transitional) in stretch (stable) and src:thunderbird in buster (testing) over stretch's lifetime (expecting some new upstream releases going into stretch, too). It might make maintenance a bit more difficult for jessie (oldstable) though ... Andreas
