Hello Paul, On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 04:06:03PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote: > As Debian migrated from Icedove to Mozilla Thunderbird more than two(?) > releases ago, it’d be great if the wrapper script was removed.
this isn't possible without a lot of work in the moment and probably will never. All things that happen in /home/* are only controlled by the user and never by any postinst or postrm script. The package Thunderbird doesn't know anything about the structure of the $(HOME) folder from the user and will never have. So we can't assume that all users have migrated their old .icedove profile to .thunderbird. And even a simple renaming or moving of .icedove to .thunderbird isn't possible, the profile will mostly include some folder names that are used and the profile would be broken / unusable after such a simpele renaming. So I see no gain to force anything to the users, we will simply keep this wrapper and all is working as expected for the user without a problem. We would need to guide the users to migrate their profiles to the now default folder ~/.thunderbird. Think about people that aren't familiar with Debian or Linux in detail! This is a difficult and time consuming task. And even this default folder isn't the best place, ~/.local/share/thunderbird would be a better place to hold the profiles.
