Hello, I am working on updating thunderbird in focal from version 68 to version 78 (78.5.0 is currently in focal-proposed), because upstream has ended support for the 68 series (bionic will follow). This is a new major version that brings a number of changes, and breaks a couple of packages in the archive (jsunit and tinyjsd, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1895643/comments/29 for details). I have consequently marked thunderbird as breaking these packages to ensure they are uninstalled on upgrade, and I have started a conversation with the SRU team (Robie specifically, who suggested this is TB territory) to try and come up with an optimal solution. Are there precedents of similar situations? Should tinyjsd and jsunit be removed from the focal archive? Should we prepare SRUs making them empty (Robie mentioned this was done with bitcoin and similar)? How do we mitigate and document the breakage?
Thanks, Olivier -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
