Bug 296306

Summary:	x11-plugins/lightning beta ebuild required to go with new Thunderbird 3
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Navid Zamani <navid.zamani>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jlec
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	295346

Description Navid Zamani 2009-12-09 12:56:50 UTC

Thunderbird 3 came out yesterday. But the current version of lightning (0.9) is not compatible with it. But there is a quite stable beta of lightning available that works with it. So if you are going to add a non-masked TB3 ebuild, we also need a non-masked lightning beta ebuild to go with it. Else people will be angry that portage just updates TB3, and their lightning calendaring vanishes. Especially if they depend on it.

Alternatively, if technically possible, mask TB3 in case lightning 0.9 is installed, and unmask it when a later version is about to be installed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install TB2
2. install lightning-0.9
3. upgrade to TB3

Actual Results:  
Lightning vanishes.

Expected Results:  
Lightning must sill be available.

Comment 1 Navid Zamani 2009-12-09 17:19:45 UTC

Is it normal, that a version bump is an “enhancement”, rather than “normal”?
Seems weird to me, since it will become such a big annoyance.

Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2009-12-09 18:12:14 UTC

enable lightning useflag on tb and you will be set, maintaining lightning outside of thunderbird is unneeded work.

Comment 3 Navid Zamani 2009-12-09 19:05:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

Interesting proposal. I have to high trust in this actually working, but Ok. If it doesn’t, I have to whip someone’s ass. ^^

Oh, wait, there is no “lightning” USE flag for version 2.0.0.23. (But for other versions.) I’m curious whether that actually works.

Comment 4 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2009-12-09 19:19:26 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> 
> Interesting proposal. I have to high trust in this actually working, but Ok. If
> it doesn’t, I have to whip someone’s ass. ^^
> 
> Oh, wait, there is no “lightning” USE flag for version 2.0.0.23. (But for
> other versions.) I’m curious whether that actually works.
> 

It does work and been tested, you will not finding a lightning useflag in anything less then 3.0.

Comment 5 Navid Zamani 2009-12-10 07:31:06 UTC

Ah ok. Good work. :) Sorry for doubting you. :)