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Ask HN: Why wasn't Thunderbird v115 packaged for Fedora?

7 points by mdwalters 3y ago

I've been using Thunderbird for a long time, and I'm rather surprised to see that Fedora still has v102, instead of the latest version, v115. Anyone know why this is happening?

LinuxBender 3y ago
Which repo was it pulled from? If EPEL they are known to lag behind for many packages. If not EPEL then I don't know. An alternative or work-around would be to pull it from their site directly [1] with the downside not being an rpm. [1] - https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.0.1/linux-x86_64/en-US/ https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/115.0.1/lin...
- mdwalters 3y ago
  From the main Fedora repo. Also, thanks for the link, I'll check it out later
Daegalus 3y ago
https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/thunderbird/thunderbird/ https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/thunderbird/thunderb... According to this it's in Rawhide, there are probably some slowdown with the imminent branching of F39 from Rawhide. Or there might be build or compatibility issues somewhere and they have to hold it back.