On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 3:15 PM Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: Updating thunderbird from 68 to 78 in focal > Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 09:13:38 -0500 > From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauri...@canonical.com> > To: technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com > > On 2021-01-15 4:13 p.m., Olivier Tilloy wrote: > > 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 > > > > Since the packages contain software that is meant to run specifically in > firefox > and thunderbird, and the only reverse-depends seems to be enigmail which is > now > obsolete, I think it is appropriate to simply SRU empty packages. I assume > this > will be done with enigmail too since it is no longer compatible or required > with > the newer thunderbird?
As I mentioned in another reply on this thread, enigmail has been updated with a version compatible with thunderbird 78 that serves to migrate existing enigmail settings and key into thunderbird's built-in functionality. That version is available in focal-proposed (2:2.2.4-0ubuntu0.20.04.1) and it goes together with the thunderbird update. > While I can't recall the exact details, I'm pretty sure we did something > similar > to firefox plugins when we switched to shipping new upstream versions instead > of > backporting patches. > > As for documenting the breakage...adding a note to the NEWS file in the empty > packages should be sufficient. Do you expect this to actually break something? > > If any other member of the tech board disagrees with this, we can add it as a > topic for our next meeting. -- technical-board mailing list technical-board@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
