Today's Thunderbird "update"

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 19/09/13 16:43, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> On 18/09/13 23:16, D. R. Evans wrote:
>>> Following today's so-called update to Thunderbird 24.0, folders that
>
>> v.24.0b1 is the latest version on the Thunderbird web site and appears
>> to be a beta release. I'll be surprised if it's available via any
>> standard repository, so how you obtained it is a mystery.
>
> As the OP mentioned version 24.0 and not v.24.0b1, it is the version
> distrubuted via the standard repositories:
>
> ~/ > LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy thunderbird
> thunderbird:
>    Installed: (none)
>    Candidate: 1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
>    Version table:
>       1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
>          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main
> amd64 Packages
>          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main
> amd64 Packages
>       11.0.1+build1-0ubuntu2 0
>          500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64
> Packages
>
> While the result above is for 12.04, it should be similar for 12.10.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
Yes. I've been using the Mozilla originals via ubuntuzilla on 
sourceforge and that source is - as I write - not current. Following 
this thread I've re-enabled Canonical's repositories and I'm now on 
24.0. Sorry for the noise.

Peter HB