[Bug 568263] [NEW] lucid thunderbird moves .mozilla-thunderbird folder from hardy to .thunderbird.upstream

[Bernhard M.]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

On a machine I had installed ubuntu-hardy (32 bit) having

# dpkg -l|grep thunderbird
ii  thunderbird                                2.0.0.24+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1            mail/news client with RSS and integrated spa
ii  thunderbird-locale-de                      1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu1~8.04.1                         Thunderbird German language/region package
ii  thunderbird-locale-en-gb                   1:2.0.0.14+1-0ubuntu1~8.04.1                         Thunderbird English language/region package

6 days ago I installed ubuntu-lucid (beta2+upgrades) on a new partition, keeping homedirs on NFS.
new versions are
# dpkg -l | grep thunderbird
ii  thunderbird                          3.0.4+nobinonly-0ubuntu3                        mail/news client with RSS and integrated spa
ii  thunderbird-locale-de                1:3.0.4-0ubuntu1                                Thunderbird German language/region package


Actual Results:
I found yesterday that thunderbird did not start. Running "thunderbird" on command-line did not produce any message either. return/error code was 1.

Further investigation showed that it replaced the .mozilla-thunderbird
folder with a symlink to .thunderbird, which would be OK, but it also
had .thunderbird as a symlink to .thunderbird, breaking things.

.mozilla-thunderbird -> /home/beyer/.thunderbird
.thunderbird -> /home/beyer/.thunderbird
It appears that the old .mozilla-thunderbird folder was moved to .thunderbird.upstream on first start of thunderbird.


Expected Results: 
 thunderbird should start using old mail settings (and address book), preferably in a way that still allows old thunderbird to work on the same configuration data.


# lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
Release:        10.04

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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lucid thunderbird moves .mozilla-thunderbird folder from hardy to .thunderbird.upstream
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