Andreas Beckmann: > 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 ...
A suggestion from a user's point of view: You could also move/incorporate the content of the icedove.NEWS file to the popup which will be shown during the migration of the icedove profile(s) (#854488). This covers the (unusual?) case when apt-listchanges is not installed. I also want to mention users who don't have root privileges like me when I used a PC in my university. These users will never see the icedove.NEWS info, but only the popup, and they will probably see the Icedove->Thunderbird link provided by the icedove.desktop file. The reason for my suggestion is that I believe you have already planned to provide the info about the re-branding to thunderbird - for jessie and wheezy in the security-announce email - for upgrades from jessie to stretch in the release notes So you only need to have the new src:thunderbird package in stretch (the release team has to give their ok to this of course because it is a new source package), jessie and wheezy. Maybe I forgot something, but I hope this will simplify the work for you. It is of course your decision if the additional work for two source packages is worth it only for giving the info about the re-branding via apt-listchanges. My point of view is that you will have the attention of all users when they want to *use* Icedove/Thunderbird, that means when the actual migration of the profile(s) takes place, and the popup is the best way to get attention. Viktor
