Yes, I had also used Ubuntuzilla to install another copy of Thunderbird.
Did you read the entire bug report?
That puzzled me and then I remembered that I had also installed
Thunderbird using ubuntuzilla about a week ago. Since both packages
seemed to use identical builds I had forgotten about it.
I had a working configuration that broke when I updated your package.
Why is that not a problem? I'm used to having multiple versions of
Thunderbird under XP and win2k. I typically have 1.5.x, 2.x and a
nightly build so that I can support users in the mozillaZine forums (I'm
tanstaafl).
What about if I had downloaded a copy of Thunderbird from Mozilla's web
site instead, both versions co-existed fine, and I apparently lost my
profile after updating your package? Would that be a non-problem?
I uninstalled the package update and had no problem having two copies of
Thunderbird (one from the Ubuntu repository, the other via Ubuntuzilla)
until today when I rebooted. Thats apparently due to Synaptic defaulting
to using the latest version available despite my explicitly uninstalling
it, so I just used the force version command to tell it to keep using
the old version.
IM closing this bug due to it not being ubuntu packages fault as our
packages still use ~/.mozilla-thunderbird as the dir for profile,
Are you stating that you don't support the ability of a user to specify
where they store their profile? I'd appreciate you spelling out in more
detail why you don't support functionality thats normally available,
given that you're shipping a application with the Mozilla trademark. I
realize that I'm asking a lot of questions but since I support a lot of
Thunderbird users in the mozillaZine forums (and a noticeable number
are switching to Ubuntu) I want to fully understand your position.
As an aside, I had configured Synaptic to only notify me of important
security updates and recommended updates. Why is 2.0.0.8~pre070122
+nobinonly-0ubuntu07.10 considered a recommended update? Mozilla hasn't
released 2.0.0.8 yet and if I interpret
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/archives/2007/09/tb_2-0-0-8.html
correctly they've added some fixes to it since you released your
package.
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Thunderbird package update lost my profile
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