On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:35:52PM -0500, Christoph Goehre wrote: > Hi Debian Developers and followers, > > Thunderbird is back in Debian! We also renamed other related packages to > use official names, e.g. iceowl-extension -> lightning. > > For now, we need testers to catch existing issues and things we haven't seen > until now. > > What happens the first time you start Thunderbird? > > With the change to the official Mozilla branding the users profile(s) will > also > be changing from '$HOME/.icedove' to '$HOME/.thunderbird' so we need to > migrate > the profile folder. This is done by /usr/bin/thunderbird, a wrapper script, > which does the following things during initial startup: > > * Copy the contents of the old profile folder into the new folder > ~/.icedove_moved_by_thunderbird_starter > * Fixup Icedove related entries to Thunderbird in > ~/.thunderbird/$PROFILE/mimeTypes.rdf > * Fixup Icedove related entries to Thunderbird in ~/.config/mimeapps.list > * The postinst/postrm scripts will move existing configuration files from > /etc/icedove/pref to /etc/thunderbird/pref.
Why not just create a ~/.thunderbird symlink to ~/.icedove if ~/.icedove exists? Mike
