#1152334 thunderbird: Non-ESR Thunderbird in sid/testing/stable?

Package:
thunderbird
Source:
thunderbird
Description:
mail/news client with RSS, chat and integrated spam filter support
Submitter:
doczipeter
Date:
2026-10-28 09:27:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1152334#5
Date:
2026-10-28 07:54:07 UTC
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Just a question: do you plan to promote the monthly (non ESR) Thunderbird version from experimental to sid/testing/stable in the forseeable future or are there any major blockers?
#1152334#10
Date:
2026-10-28 09:08:08 UTC
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To:
Hello doczipeter,

Am 28.10.26 um 09:54 schrieb doczipeter:

as this questions comes again and again from time to time. :-)

No, we don't have such plans and never had.
We build the now non ESR versions so far much and often as possible and
did this previously with the beta versions.
The effort to do this is just too high to provide such versions also for
sid and testing and definitely not for stable on a regular base.

You can mostly install such versions from experimental without much
issues also in sid and testing.
Our main aim here is to keep track with the upstream changes so we don't
need to work then that long on switching to a new ESR version.

Technically it's of course possible to build such versions for sid and
testing, but this requires more work in the details as then more rework
and readjusting of the packaging and the package structure is needed.
And this takes human manpower which isn't available.

If you want to use such versions it's better to pull in versions
provided by Mozilla directly.

#1152334#15
Date:
2026-10-28 09:24:15 UTC
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Thank you for your swift and detailed response!