Icedove transition coming soon (was: Bits from the Release Team: What should go into squeeze?)

[Alexander Sack]

Christoph, I made a full sdk for 3.0 in ubuntu thunderbird-dev now and managed
to move enigmail on that base ... maybe check the last upload to lucid. I would
need all those changes to make enigmail build. For questions you can find me in
debian-devel ;).

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 07:18:36PM +0000, Alan Woodland wrote:
> On 20 March 2010 18:23, Christoph Goehre <chris at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:30:37AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> >> > It would be great if every team on track could send us a short mail to
> >> > debian-release at lists.debian.org.
> >>
> >> Speaking for the pkg-mozilla team, everything is more or less in shape,
> >> except the icedove transition that has not started yet: 3.0.x is
> >> expected to be the one shipped with squeeze, but it's still only in
> >> experimental. In any case, we don't want to ship 2.0.0.x in squeeze.
> >
> > OK, lets talk about icdove transition. With some help of Mike, I've
> > prepared the icedove-dev package for icedove 3.0. So it's time to move
> > icedove from experimental to sid, to be able to release it with squeeze.
> > We/I'll upload it to unstable until Groupwaremeeting[1] on 17th of
> > April.
> >
> > On the other hand, we have experimental free for versions of icedove
> > 3.1, which will hopefully released at 1st of June. Guido and I discuss
> > yesterday the fact, to get a beta/RC version of 3.1 in squeeze. If Mozilla
> > be in time with its release plan, this would be a additional option.
> > Also in the face of EOL of 3.0 before ending of security support for
> > squeeze.
> >
> > I've CC'ed the maintainer/uploader of enigmail and traybiff, because
> > icedove 3.0 could break their packages.
> I will take a look at this for traybiff in about 2 weeks time if no
> one else does before. Rather busy right now.
> 
> Alan
> 

 - Alexander