As I did those updates..
well explained, thx.
But this then seems to be a more general problem of how we want to support a switch an application from one ESR/LTS release if it is EOL to the next.
not terribly differently than others -- with an abundance of end-user education and caution? tbird version update -- across ESLs or not -- breaking one's install, or eating one's mailstore, is not _automatically_ a universal fact for tbird, it's more often an issue specific to one's system; not uncommmonly, your config &/or your addons. for other ppl, the upgrade's been working fine in production for awhile now with upstream releases, with early fedora tbird builds, and now the fedora release pkgs. for me, the lack of a long-overdue v102 update was 'costing' much more than not ... on F36, thunderbird packages are still available in two major versions dnf list --showduplicates thunderbird Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:09 ago on Sat 03 Sep 2022 07:36:45 AM EDT. Available Packages thunderbird.x86_64 91.7.0-1.fc36 fedora thunderbird.x86_64 102.2.1-1.fc36 updates older version's still easily installed, dnf install thunderbird-91.7.0-1.fc36.x86_64 historical versions are still available, and quite easily installed & functional, from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/releases/ ESL or not, how exactly was thunderbird 102 'pushed' to ppl's systems? did they enable autoupdates? or, click to allow the update? if tbird's a critical update for 'you', you do have backups of your tbird configs & mailstores? keep up to date with thunderbird version progress/news/chengelogs/notes? remembered that addons are not tbird or fedora issues, and checked current/future compatibility of your addons, as well as whether they're well maintained? communicated issues/bugs/etc to the respective projects? and have waited to update until after checking/verifying that it works for you? and, in case none of that was done, since firefox/tbird major-version update issues _are_ historically well-known (if unfortunate), you froze version upgrades of tbird on your system https://dnf-plugins-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/versionlock.html to make sure that you're never surprised by an update you don't want/expect? my $0.02. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
