Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Dear release team,
as you know the Iceweasel package was moving back to use the offizial Mozilla Branding, that was reintroducing the Firefox packages. Sylvestre Ledru was requesting the same for Icedove, please see report #816679. For various reasons it tooks a painful long time to follow that request and do the needed preparation and basic testing of all. Unfortunately the new de-branded thunderbird packages couldn't be uploaded before 5th Dec 2016. In the near past we also was fighting with the binutils issue on the mips* platforms and focused on preparation for stable-security uploads. Anyway, Christoph was able to upload a first shoot of the new thunderbird packages into experimental on 31th Dec 2016. Some days ago Christoph has uploaded a new version with some fixups to experimental. We have planed to do a d-d-a this weekend about the relaunch of Thunderbird to get some more testers. We also would like to see the migrated Thunderbird packages going into the stretch release. But as we are now after the 5th Jan we need to figure out the possibility with the release team. So I like to ask what's the release team is thinking about Thunderbird for stretch. We believe it's still possible to do that. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/816679 -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)