Re: Thunderbird 78.2.2 unusable in 2020Q3

[Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost>]

Hi,

On 22.11.20 11:36, Fekete Zoltán wrote:
> I have built a 78.3.0, and the bug disappeared and it works well for me. 
> However 78.3.0 is not considered to be a very good version, quote on the 
> page mentioned above:
>
> "Frequent crashes were reported after updating to Thunderbird 78.3.0. 
> Thunderbird 78.3.1 is now available with a fix."

Thank you for addressing this issue. I noticed it exactly this weekend, 
too. I had decided to apply this patch:

	https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr78/rev/f085dbd311bc

This is referenced in the corresponding bug report:

	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664607	

Neverthenless, what is the policy for bug fixes / security fixes for the 
quarterly releases? Of course I have no illusions - maintaining multiple 
parallel branches is labor intensive and so probably not affordable by 
the NetBSD team. However, assuming that someone can be found who finds 
this problem is serious enough to spent some time on, would they apply 
the aforementioned patch or move directly to the newer Thunderbird where 
the problem was also fixed?

Kind regards
Matthias