The real issue is that our previous thunderbird maintainer left and we didn't get a new member to replace him and the other team members have more than enough to do already. I'm doing my best to get the updates out but I'm not that familiar with the project and I'm also busy, if anyone wants to step up to help instead of complaining about our priority being wrong that would help...
Also issues like having to be able to update nodejs in a stable Ubuntu serie to build a newer thunderbird should make us consider phasing out the deb in favor of using a snap as we did for firefox... Meanwhile it seems that the depends requirement doesn't need to be as strict so for this round we should be able to just lower the depends in a patch, new builds have been uploaded to the security ppa for 115.3.1 on the different series -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2029913 Title: [SRU request] Update Thunderbird to 115.x (as 102.x is EOL) Status in thunderbird package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: [ Impact ] * The Thunderbird 102.x series has its final release (12.15.0) planned for release on August 30th. After that, the 102.x series will no longer receive critical security updates. Due to the size and complexity of the Mozilla/Thunderbird codebase, it is extremely unlikely that the Ubuntu team could take on the task of backporting patches to new security issues once official support for the 102.x series has ended. * Updating to Thunderbird 115.x in all currently-supported Ubuntu releases will make sure users stay secure. * It should be noted that 115.x does make changes to the interface. While all these changes are ostensibly for the better, normally this level of change would disqualify an application from getting SRUed. However, running an EOL email client is a security/privacy risk to users that can't be ignored. * Official post detailing the interface changes: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0/whatsnew/ * Official changelog for 115.0 release: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0/releasenotes/ * Official changelog for 115.1 bugfix release: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.1.0/releasenotes/ [ Test Plan ] Not sure, I'm just a user [ Where problems could occur ] * New major release, usual concerns apply [ Other Info ] * I'm guessing that this SRU was already planned to happen eventually, but since I couldn't find an official request, here we are To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/2029913/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
