Package: thunderbird Version: 1:140.13.0esr-2~deb13u1 Severity: minor X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, since the package tracks upstream's ESR release cycle, an appropriate description should be provided to avoid confusion between other packages from other sources. upstream currently provides its software on flathub as both Thunderbird and Thunderbird ESR. while not the official way to install packages on Debian, users who use a graphical software center with flathub's remote enabled see the following packages: - Thunderbird (provided by Debian) - Thunderbird (provided by upstream) - Thunderbird ESR (provided by upstream) these names come from the packages' short description. this could lead to confusion as to which package tracks which release cycle. while it's expected for Debian packages to not follow upstream's version, the source of these packages is not shown upfront in GNOME Software for example, thus potentially leading to further confusion. this might affect the 11770 current users having installed gnome-software-plugin-flatpak, and the 8662 current users having installed plasma-discover-backend-flatpak as well as potentially other users there is precedent for Mozilla packages to be clearly marked as ESR. Firefox is provided as firefox-esr and firefox (the latter only available on the unstable branch). the package name and description in this case does clearly indicate if it is ESR or not. additional considerations: - consider naming the package as thunderbird-esr. while no separate package exists on Debian for ESR and non-ESR versions, it would be consistent with the naming of firefox-esr - consider changing the name in the .desktop file to Thunderbird ESR. users having installed multiple versions of the software (although necessarly from different sources) could easier distinguish which version they wanna launch. counterpoint to this: upstream's flatpak version of Thunderbird ESR still calls itself only Thunderbird. consistency with upstream might be desired in this case - consider changing the packages long description too. on flathub the description upstream's two packages differ by the following line being inculded in the ESR version. "The official Extended Support Release channel is intended for users who want all available new features on an annual basis and stability/security fixes on a monthly basis." this might be a good basis for the change, but note that this is not the "official" Extended Support Release as it is a redistribution, so do not include it verbatim - same applications from different sources are grouped together in GNOME Software and Plasma Discover. if this is desired with Thunderbird, consider updating the descriptions to match upstream's so that they would be grouped together. counterpoint to this: upstream might change this description more frequently than Debian's stable release schedule would allow for, so a match might not last from: jan kapoli (i didn't use AI for any of this report. if it's sounds clunky, please consider that English is not my first language) -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.12.101+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_HU.UTF-8@custom, LC_CTYPE=en_HU.UTF-8@custom (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages thunderbird depends on: ii debianutils 5.23.2 ii fontconfig 2.15.0-2.3 ii libasound2t64 1.2.14-1 ii libatk1.0-0t64 2.56.2-1+deb13u1 ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u3 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.4-1+b1 ii libcairo2 1.18.4-1+b1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.16.2-2 ii libevent-2.1-7t64 2.1.12-stable-10+b1 ii libffi8 3.4.8-2 ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-2.3 ii libfreetype6 2.13.3+dfsg-1+deb13u1 ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-4+deb13u1 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u3 ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.49-3 ii libnspr4 2:4.36-1 ii libotr5t64 4.1.1-6 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.56.3-1 ii librnp0 0.17.1-1+b1 ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19 ii libvpx9 1.15.0-2.1+deb13u1 ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1 ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.8.12-1 ii libxcb-shm0 1.17.0-2+b1 ii libxcb1 1.17.0-2+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.4-1+b3 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.4-1+b3 ii psmisc 23.7-2 ii x11-utils 7.7+7 ii zenity 4.1.90-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.3.dfsg+really1.3.1-1+b1 Versions of packages thunderbird recommends: ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 1:2020.12.07-4 ii hunspell-hu [hunspell-dictionary] 1:25.2.3-1 Versions of packages thunderbird suggests: ii apparmor 4.1.0-1 pn fonts-lyx <none> ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.21.3-5+deb13u1 -- no debconf information
