Dear Debian folks,


`sudo execsnoop.bt` from the package *bpftrace* shows, Mozilla
Thunderbird is not started directly, but that `/usr/bin/thunderbird` is
a wrapper script.

As Debian migrated from Icedove to Mozilla Thunderbird more than two(?)
releases ago, it’d be great if the wrapper script was removed.


Kind regards,

Paul

Hello Paul,

this isn't possible without a lot of work in the moment and probably
will never.

All things that happen in /home/* are only controlled by the user and
never by any postinst or postrm script. The package Thunderbird doesn't
know anything about the structure of the $(HOME) folder from the user
and will never have. So we can't assume that all users have migrated
their old .icedove profile to .thunderbird.

And even a simple renaming or moving of .icedove to .thunderbird isn't
possible, the profile will mostly include some folder names that are
used and the profile would be broken / unusable after such a simpele
renaming.

So I see no gain to force anything to the users, we will simply keep
this wrapper and all is working as expected for the user without a
problem.

We would need to guide the users to migrate their profiles to the now
default folder ~/.thunderbird. Think about people that aren't familiar
with Debian or Linux in detail! This is a difficult and time consuming
task.  And even this default folder isn't the best place,
~/.local/share/thunderbird would be a better place to hold the profiles.

see also #990807