Thunderbird bz 579023 still not fixed even though there is an upstream fix available

[Jan Horak]

On 04/25/2010 10:00 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> I wrote:
>> Those packages are also sometimes not compliant with Fedora policies such
>> as usage of system libraries because any patches to use a system library
>> need trademark approval.
>
> Another one: Thunderbird STILL bundles its own Gecko instead of using the
> system xulrunner, another blatant violation of our packaging guidelines.
> Nothing is done to fix this issue because upstream does not care and we
> can't change what they ship.
>
Hi,
Thunderbird is unable to use system xulrunner yet. We are working with 
upstream to fix it. Believe me, it's not a trivial task: 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377319 (see also depends bugs).
-- 
jh