Warning! Possible Thunderbird problem

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:26:32 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:

> FWIW thunderbird-7.0.1-1 was the version released with F16. 

There have been *many* updates since then. 7.0.1-1.fc16 is ancient,
from 2011:

  Information for build thunderbird-7.0.1-1.fc16
  Completed	Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:55:35 UTC
  http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=266204

> There is also a similar bugzilla which was opened with F15 which is now WONTFIX.  Since F15 went End Of Life.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808326 .    F16 is in a similar situation.
> 

It smells much like the recent Thunderbird releases don't like ancient
configuration files, but that's really just a guess. Such a Min/Max version
check typically only makes sense, if the target software can only handle
data within the supported version range and would need to give up early.

It might have been necessary to update from the ancient 7.0.1 to newer
ones in smaller steps in order to migrate user's configuration. Also just
a guess. ;-)

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