Virtuous8897Jul 21, 2023

Thunderbird 115 - odd lack of packaged options beginning to raise eyebrows?

https://sh.itjust.works/post/1493809

Thunderbird 115 - odd lack of packaged options beginning to raise eyebrows? - sh.itjust.works

Thunderbird 115 has been out over a week now and the lack of packaged versions, especially Flatpak, is beginning to raise eyebrows. Gotta admit, I’ve been curious at the lack of a Flatpak version since the day they announced it’s “availability”. An article: https://www.webpronews.com/thunderbird-leaves-linux-users-waiting-for-much-hyped-version-115/ [https://www.webpronews.com/thunderbird-leaves-linux-users-waiting-for-much-hyped-version-115/] Linux Cast episode: https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=G-OvQw2JRWI [https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=G-OvQw2JRWI]

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I don’t think a week is that long to wait for an open source project like this. I suspect as soon as they released 115 they got a deluge of bug reports that are probably keeping them occupied.

Granted, I’m not personally affected because <smug>I use Arch btw</smug>. But on a serious note, it makes sense to me that “bleeding edge” distros where users expect the latest versions quickly would package Thunderbird for their repos, whereas those on more stability-focused distros would wait the couple of weeks for the Flatpak.

Jul 21, 2023 at 3:04pmWeb
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Fair point.