thunderbird-lightning fails on F12

Paolo Galtieri pgaltieri at gmail.com
Wed Nov 17 20:05:13 UTC 2010


On 11/17/10 12:48, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>> I tried sending this last week, but never saw it on the list.
>>
>> Recently F12 updated thunderbird to 3.0.10; however, there was no update
>> to thunderbird-lightning so I no longer have access to my calendar.
>> When I start thunderbird I get a  message saying lightning 1.0b2pre is
>> not compatible with thunderbird 3.0.10.  Is there a plan to provide a
>> compatible thunderbird-lightning?  Before I upgrade I want to be able to
>> export my existing thunderbird settings including my calendar events.
>>
>> Also the thunderbird addon to provide bidirectional access to google
>> calendar no longer works for the same reason.
>>
> I suspect this is an end-of-life support issue. Someone updated Tbird and not
> all of the things which depend on it. I would use yum to downgrade to the
> previous version, since it's unlikely to get fixed properly (you could look in
> updates-testing, though).
>
> Better to leave mail working with a bug than secure and unusable!
>
It's just frustrating that Fedora will sometimes release updates that 
break things.

Paolo


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