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Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2020 5:34 pm
by karlchen
Good night, folks.
karlchen wrote: Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:53 pm
- Upgraded from Thunderbird 68.12.0 to 78.3.1 using MX Package Installer
- Now I am eagerly waiting for Thunderbird 78.4.0 to become available in the MX test repo.
After reading this,
in the thread:
Packages being worked on by the Repo Team, I'll be watching the MX Updater panel icon 24/7 ...
--Addendum--
Did not have to watch for long. Thunderbird updated from 78.3.1 to 78.4.0.
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2020-10-27 23:24:51 upgrade thunderbird amd64 2:78.3.1-2mx19+1 2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
2020-10-27 23:24:50 upgrade thunderbird-l10n-de all 2:78.3.1-2mx19+1 2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
2020-10-27 23:24:50 upgrade lightning-l10n-de all 2:78.3.1-2mx19+1 2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
2020-10-27 23:24:50 upgrade lightning all 2:78.3.1-2mx19+1 2:78.4.0-1mx19+1
Too late for testing it tonight.
Cheers,
Karl
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:38 am
by Sparky
do you mean updated from the flatpak?
I dont see it in MXPI.
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:40 am
by tony37
Sparky wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:38 amI dont see it in MXPI.
version 78 is in the Test repo
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:43 am
by Sparky
tony37 wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:40 am
Sparky wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2020 7:38 amI dont see it in MXPI.
version 78 is in the Test repo
Thanks Tony! I prefer not to mess with the test repo.
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 8:56 am
by metreo
Well v78 is the latest stable security release so it should be a recommended install.
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:05 am
by Eadwine Rose
Nope it should not because it breaks things.
At least that is the in-short what I understood about that version. I don't want to go dig that post up about it, but it is somewhere in a post or thread or something that explains things.
Or has the consensus on that changed and I missed the memo?
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:39 am
by mmikeinsantarosa
There are some notes in the thunderbird thread for MX-19 starting about
here regarding upgrading to the new 78 series releases. I'm still on 68.12 - Mike
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 10:42 am
by Eadwine Rose
Thanks Mike :)
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:11 am
by karlchen
Hi, folks.
As can be told from my posts, that list, which Thunderbird related packages have been updated, from 68.12 to 78.3.1
[1] and from 78.3.1 to 78.4.0
[2], all through MX Package Installer from the MX test repo (no flatpaks involved), on my MX 19.2 systems, it is only
Thunderbird and
Lightning (both plus German language support).
Nothing, absolutely nothing has been broken for me, when making the big leap forward from 68.12 to 78.3.1 here. At least I have not noted anything, which had worked before and stopped doing so on 78.3.1 and 78.4.0.
--
My personal point of view:
Based on the official "Fixes" lists of the Thunderbird versions 78.3.0, 78.3.1, 78.3.2, 78.3.3 and 78.4.0:
my impression is that
+ early Thunderbird 78.x releases introduced a number of issues
+ some of which may have affected users specifically, who had upgraded from 68.x to 78.x
+ but starting with 78.3.1 and more so with 78.4.0 most of these issue should be history
+ nonetheless users keep on picking on the initial issues introduced by early Thunderbird 78.x releases (pre-78.3.1)
+ without realizing that quite a few bugs & deficiencies have been resolved by now.
Best regards,
Karl
Re: Thunderbird
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2020 11:33 am
by mmikeinsantarosa
I'll need to double-check but I believe the 78.n series also needed at least one depends from test. It'll take more testing before we move it into main. - Mike