Replacing thunderbird with icedove

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-11-04 Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> wrote:
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2006-11-04 Luk Claes <luk at debian.org> wrote:
> >> Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >>> afaict there are currently no hints for getting rid of thunderbird and
> >>> letting icedove in instead.

> >> No, I didn't add hints because thunderbird source package still leaves
> >> packages which are not in icedove source package (as meta transition package).
[...] 
 
> > just to be sure I understand you correctly: d-release will not let
> > icedove into testing until it ships transition packages for every
> > binary package shipped in thunderbird. i.e. the following packages
> > must be added to icedove:
> >  thunderbird-dbg
> >  thunderbird-dev
> >  thunderbird-gnome-support

> No, I said that *I* didn't want to add hints yet untill at least is discussed
> why they shouldn't be provided...

The three missing packages were never part of a stable release afaict.

cu andreas

rmadison thunderbird-dbg thunderbird-dev thunderbird-gnome-support