On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 07:15:38PM +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > there is a reason why we decided to not delete anything here that is > related to the users scope. We don't want delete user files and > configuration as the impact of a deleted folder or files is much bigger > as not used backup of a folder. So we have to go into one direction in > the end.
I agree with this reasoning, but I think (if I understand things correctly) I am still concerned about the idea of this migration stuff being run every time automatically when you invoke thunderbird (by having it added into the /usr/bin/thunderbird wrapper directly). Could the migration stuff be in a separate script, that a user must manually invoke? I've seen Firefox occasionally say it needed to perform a migration to cope with changes in something-or-other when it has updated. Is any chunk of that logic available to hook into with Thunderbird? I suppose you could have some prompting logic in the wrapper that would warn about the presence of the old location and point the user at a separate migration tool, which could inform the user that they now have two copies of their profile, pre- and post migration, and to perform cleanup if they are happy. We're in freeze now too, and it feels a little worrying to be working on something this tricky at such a time. As pointed out to me on IRC, though, it's probably better than post-release, at least. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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