Bug#857029: thunderbird: tries to migrate nonexistent ~/.icedove due to unintended meaning of "\ #" syntax

2017-03-08 Thread Chris Taylor
On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:54:04 +0200 jim_p wrote: Package: thunderbird Version: 1:45.7.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #857029 To the ones that removed the comment parts and made it work again. Can you please write a patch for it or paste the corrected file in pastebin? I removed the

Bug#857029: thunderbird: tries to migrate nonexistent ~/.icedove due to unintended meaning of "\ #" syntax

2017-03-08 Thread jim_p
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:45.7.1-2 Followup-For: Bug #857029 To the ones that removed the comment parts and made it work again. Can you please write a patch for it or paste the corrected file in pastebin? I removed the comment parts but the message shows up again. And please merge it with

Bug#857029: thunderbird: tries to migrate nonexistent ~/.icedove due to unintended meaning of "\ #" syntax

2017-03-07 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
Adding my "Me too!" here. Since I rebuild thunderbird from Ubuntu, it always used ~/.thunderbird folder. So, after this second debian-based package it breaks with the dialog about "An existing profile.." Creating a symlink to ~/.icedove shows the same message. But removing the "\ #"

Bug#857029: thunderbird: tries to migrate nonexistent ~/.icedove due to unintended meaning of "\ #" syntax

2017-03-07 Thread Ralf-Peter Rohbeck
Me too. I had migrated from icedove to thunderbird earlier with a previous update. Just removing the comments didn't fix it for me. I moved my profile out of the way, deleted ~/.thunderbird, started from scratch, then moved my profile back into ~/.thunderbird and edited profile.ini.

Bug#857029: thunderbird: tries to migrate nonexistent ~/.icedove due to unintended meaning of "\ #" syntax

2017-03-07 Thread Simon John
I can confirm this also breaks when you *do* have an existing ~/.thunderbird directory (and no ~/.icedove directory/symlink). Removing the comments fixes it. No idea how this got into unstable, when the test case is simply to start Thunderbird, perhaps it doesn't break if you have ~/.icedove ?

Bug#857029: thunderbird: tries to migrate nonexistent ~/.icedove due to unintended meaning of "\ #" syntax

2017-03-07 Thread Simon McVittie
Package: thunderbird Version: 1:45.7.1-2 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable (for new installations) Steps to reproduce: * Use a new account that has never run thunderbird or icedove * Start thunderbird Expected result: * Account creation wizard or something (I can't