mozilla-thunderbird: "W" (watch thread) does not function

[Matt Price]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 07:14:32AM +1100, Anthony David wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 09:49:03AM -0200, Julio Biason wrote:
> > On 2/21/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> > > If this is a bug report I think you might have sent it to the wrong
> > > place. You've sent it to the ubuntu-users list, even though your email
> > > client seem s to think this is the Ubuntu Bug Tracking System.
> > 
> > It is the 'reportbug' tool that comes with Ubuntu that uses
> > 'ubuntu-users' as default destination.
> 
> And every package I have looked at with 'apt-cache show' has this list as the Bugs: address.
> 
> eg
> 
> apt-cache show mozilla-thunderbird
> 
> ...
> 
> MD5sum: ef9e40914e252cbba4a7aa50abd5f486
> Description: Mozilla Thunderbird standalone mail client
>  Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the Mozilla mail component. The
>  goal is to produce a cross platform stand alone mail application using
>  the XUL user interface language. Mozilla Thunderbird leaves a somewhat
>  smaller memory footprint than the Mozilla suite.
> Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Origin: Ubuntu
> 

yes, this is an incredibly annoying bug since it makes it almost
impossible to report any other bugs...  the dev team is aware of it, I
think they are waiting till dapper to "fix" it by introducing tighter
integration with launchpad/malone (thus obviating/obsoleting reportbug).
personally I'd rather they just fixed reportbug, but as I'm not about
to do the coding...   

matt

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