debranding seamonkey

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:29:58PM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at jwsdot.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 07:10:44AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:17:14AM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at jwsdot.com> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:32:03PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Attached is a script that does what i think should do the trick.
> > > > Please test intensively and give feedback :)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, should I duplicate for /usr/share/xxx and /etc/xxx hierarchy?
> > 
> > I think it should also be used for /usr/share/xxx, but for /etc, i'm not
> > quite sure. I think it would be safer to copy the old conffiles.
> > 
> > > Will integrate tomorrow in icedove and give feedback.
> 
> I have tried to integrate them, but using dpkg I get left over with an
> almost empty directory hierarchy .... I have not looked into this in
> depth, but this makes me wonder, why do we need to move anything at
> all? Shouldn't dpkg take care to remove the old thunderbird files?

The thing is that there are extensions, plugins, whatever, that may have
put files in the thunderbird directory. If you want these to be used by
icedove, you need to move the files.

Mike