thunderbird 0.6 only ?

[Ben Smith]

Philippe wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I would like to try thundebird, just in case it feets better my need
>than Evolution, but the only rpm I can find on the official repository
>is thunderbird-0.6, and no 0.8 !
>
>Is it because they need time to test it, or because this is not in the
>Fedora package favorites ? Compared to Firefox, the rpm is not so old
>(0.93 instead of 1.0-rc1).
>
>Any hints about this ? (I did not find thunderbird in livna, fedora.us,
>dag, freshrpms, stable , testing or even unstable.)
>
>Philippe
>
>  
>
In case anyone is interested, Thunderbird 0.8 from rawhide compiles and 
runs on FC1 if you comment out the freetype patch in the SPEC file:

#%patch4 -p0 -b .freetype
 
-Ben Smith
Dees Consulting
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