Public bug reported:
I suggest consolidating the thunderbird Ubuntu packaging with Debian for
versions >= 78. Now that the lightning calendar extension is part of
thunderbird, the thunderbird packaging between Ubuntu and Debian is
getting closer except for the naming of the locale packages.
The latest thunderbird version always gets updated in Debian 10 stable-
security and Debian 9 oldstable-security since thunderbird follows the
Firefox ESR versioning and Debian follows that. Ubuntu does a similar
thing with its stable LTS releases, and hence could benefit from the
Debian packaging. And when a new major release of Thunderbird is out, it
gets updated in Debian unstable/experimental then backported to stable
and oldstable. A similar thing happens in Ubuntu development and stable
LTS releases.
So I suggest a plan like this:
1. Transition the thunderbird locale packages in Ubuntu to the Debian naming
2. Merge the latest thunderbird with Debian unstable/experimental to Ubuntu
development
If the Debian maintainer agrees, the Ubuntu packaging could also happen
in Debian salsa similar to what is already happening with GNOME
packaging.
I think sharing the thunderbird packaging between Ubuntu and Debian is
beneficial to both sides going forward in the future, and especially if
thunderbird packaging gets more complicated to backport to stable
releases.
** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1894090
Title:
Consolidate thunderbird Ubuntu packaging with Debian for versions >=
78
Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I suggest consolidating the thunderbird Ubuntu packaging with Debian
for versions >= 78. Now that the lightning calendar extension is part
of thunderbird, the thunderbird packaging between Ubuntu and Debian is
getting closer except for the naming of the locale packages.
The latest thunderbird version always gets updated in Debian 10
stable-security and Debian 9 oldstable-security since thunderbird
follows the Firefox ESR versioning and Debian follows that. Ubuntu
does a similar thing with its stable LTS releases, and hence could
benefit from the Debian packaging. And when a new major release of
Thunderbird is out, it gets updated in Debian unstable/experimental
then backported to stable and oldstable. A similar thing happens in
Ubuntu development and stable LTS releases.
So I suggest a plan like this:
1. Transition the thunderbird locale packages in Ubuntu to the Debian naming
2. Merge the latest thunderbird with Debian unstable/experimental to Ubuntu
development
If the Debian maintainer agrees, the Ubuntu packaging could also
happen in Debian salsa similar to what is already happening with GNOME
packaging.
I think sharing the thunderbird packaging between Ubuntu and Debian is
beneficial to both sides going forward in the future, and especially
if thunderbird packaging gets more complicated to backport to stable
releases.
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