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Thank you for marking the package as out-of-date. But you not need.

I am working with the founder of betterbird and receive the information about the new version immediately. And I am not 24 hours in front of my PC. Sometimes I have a private life and need to sleep. But you can be sure, I am doing my best to update as soon as possible.

Kind regards

Posi81

Hi, I'm the BB maintainer. Instead of the patch you've sent, can you update http://github.com/Betterbird/thunderbird-patches/blob/main/metadata/eu.betterbird.Betterbird.desktop That's used for the FlatPak and also for AUR (with a few minor changes).

BTW: StartupWMClass=betterbird.

The MIME types the TB folks have MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;text/calendar;text/vcard;text/x-vcard;x-scheme-handler/webcal;x-scheme-handler/webcals;x-scheme-handler/mid; aren't complete.

They are missing some that we have: MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;application/x-xpinstall;application/x-extension-ics; They were told but ignored it: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1825927#c0

All you're really saying is that this text/calendar;text/vcard;text/x-vcard;x-scheme-handler/webcal;x-scheme-handler/webcals; should be added to the BB MIME types, right? What else is there to change?

The thunderbird packages version 115.2.0-2 and above have been using ".desktop" from source.

The official ".desktop" lists the mime types that version supports. Technically betterbird supports all the same mime types, but the "betterbird.desktop" in AUR missed a few of them (text/calendar;text/vcard;text/x-vcard;x-scheme-handler/webcal;x-scheme-handler/webcals;x-scheme-handler/mid as of version 115.5.1). We should also use the office ".desktop" from thunderbird's source replacing all thunderbird references with betterbird. Following is patch for just that.

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index 9b1b6ac..f8b5fd4 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ source=(
 #    "http://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}-${_build}-replacement.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"
     "http://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}-${_build}-build2.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"
 #    "http://www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}-${_build}.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2"
-    "betterbird.desktop"
+    http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/$pkgver/source/thunderbird-$pkgver.source.tar.xz
 )

 package() {
@@ -25,7 +25,18 @@ package() {
     install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"

     cp -r "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}/" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
-    install -m644 "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
+    install -m644 "${srcdir}/thunderbird-${pkgver}/comm/taskcluster/docker/tb-flatpak/org.mozilla.Thunderbird.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
+
+    # .desktop file generated from jinja2 when build flatpak
+    # http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/79590 & http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1852091
+    sed -i \
+        -e '/StartupNotify=true/a StartupWMClass=thunderbird' \
+        -e 's|Mozilla ||g' \
+        -e 's|org[.]mozilla[.]Thunderbird|betterbird|g' \
+        -e 's|Thunderbird|Betterbird|g' \
+        -e 's|thunderbird|betterbird|g' \
+        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
+
     ln -s /opt/$_pkgname/betterbird "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/$_pkgname

     #icons
@@ -36,4 +47,6 @@ package() {
     done
 }
 sha256sums=('9018d64f4d1029034c9a34b349f624addf5d0408243e271ecd8b4976b82ef110'
-            '816a97383c4eba202d9993736d14d3f728064d1bea7301adc93ed1248a096ca8')
+            'SKIP')
+sha512sums=('SKIP'
+            '5ddc39b3591427d283c5497f68a1d722409aba54d53342a36a259daa219d8135ecf88868b12235eb9536f46f825722cf6da2781b71a2e10b816281231394b4f9')

What's out of date on 4 Oct 2023?

Betterbird, any chance this could be hosted on a better mirror? My download speed with your site maxes out at 50 KBps

PLEASE READ PREVIOUS COMMENTS.

This is the maintainer for Betterbird. Betterbird 115 hasn't been released as update for Linux yet, it's only available individual download. 115 will replace 102 in a few months when it's stable. Refer to our website for details.

Hi, this is the maintainer for Betterbird. Betterbird 115 wasn't released for Linux yet. We will be building it this week for individual download. 115 will replace 102 in a few months when it's stable. Refer to our website for details.

This is in reply to this comment (which I can't see any more): Your package betterbird-bin [1] has been flagged out-of-date by EmilC [2]:

Our Fastest, Most Beautiful Release Ever: Thunderbird 115 “Supernova” Is Here!

[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/betterbird-bin/ [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/account/EmilC/

Please create a package with a build from source

Sorry for the inconvenience. I had a total private breakdown and now I've taken care of everything. Please remember to redownload the package for a new build if you use YAY.

betterbird-102.11.0-bb35.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2

sha256sums=('c87d36857a2b3c711b32b08211c4fb6dcb92ad0ce552dbed8e9ba10620860209'
            '816a97383c4eba202d9993736d14d3f728064d1bea7301adc93ed1248a096ca8')

Sorry, we had to do a build2 which is published at www.betterbird.eu. That broke AUR since the checksums refer to build1. Sorry for the inconvenience. I'm sure, AUR will update soon.