From: [email protected]

Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Version: 0.7.3-1
Severity: normal

The Mozilla thunderbird help tries to start a Web browser to view http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/. The documentation should be
included with Thunderbird itself. Not doing that poses several
problems:

* People working offline have no access to help

* There is no guarantee that the help at that site will be
accurate for the version of Thunderbird installed on a given machine

* People may be using Thunderbird in situations where access to the
Web is unavailable

* The site may become unreachable in the future

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages mozilla-thunderbird depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-3 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.5-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.4-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-7 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System printing extension ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-5 compression library - runtime

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The Mozilla thunderbird help tries to start a Web browser to view >http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/. The documentation should be
included with Thunderbird itself. Not doing that poses several
problems:

* People working offline have no access to help

* There is no guarantee that the help at that site will be
accurate for the version of Thunderbird installed on a given machine

* People may be using Thunderbird in situations where access to the
Web is unavailable

* The site may become unreachable in the future

As long as upstream does not include those docs in the source package, I
will not go on and add the texturizer pages to some mozilla-thunderbird package. For me this is not a bug.

Maybe you want to make your own mozilla-thunderbird-documentation
package or find someone who is willing to do so. The links are just
thought as a initial getting started hint.


Cheers,

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On Tuesday 17 August 2004 01:13 pm, Alexander Sack wrote:

As long as upstream does not include those docs in the source
package, I will not go on and add the texturizer pages to some mozilla-thunderbird package. For me this is not a bug.

The fact remains that Thunderbird will be almost entirely undocumented.
I think that is a bug. Perhaps you could reopen this and set it to
wontfix?



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