Comment 16 for bug 373167
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| John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote Re: [Bug 373167] Re: After installing Thunderbird, preferred applications shows both "Mozilla Thunderbird" and "Thunderbird" | #16 |
On 06/03/2009 08:01 AM, Bruno Girin wrote:
> John, the reason why it looks like a Thunderbird bug is that it appears
> that the Thunderbird package installs a thunderbird and a mozilla-
> thunderbird link in /usr/bin, both pointing to
> /usr/lib/
> link, it resolves the problem. So steps to reproduce:
>
> cd /usr/bin
> sudo ln -s ../lib/
>
> If you now go to System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications, you
> will see both a "Thunderbird" option and a "Mozilla Thunderbird" one. If
> you remove the /usr/bin/
> disappears from preferred applications.
>
> It looks like the /usr/bin/
> installing the thunderbird package is superfluous. Or is this the
> intended behaviour and does it mean that the preferred applications
> preference tool should show only one option even if both links are
> present?
>
Thanks that makes sense. I haven't looked at 2.0 debian/ in a while. I
know that thunderbird-3.0 no longer has this issue but i couldn't
reproduce it with tb2 either. I'm not going to have time for ~1 month to
look at this but i will ping Alexander and ask him to look into it or Fabien
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