panel launchers break on upgrade

Looks like it. The following panel launchers stopped working on my parents' system after the upgrade:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunderbird Mail Client
Comment=Read and write your email
Exec=mozilla-thunderbird
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=mozilla-thunderbird.xpm
Categories=Application;Network

On two different systems that I upgraded to Gutsy from Edgy, the panel launchers weren't just broken, they were gone.

This caused some confusion for the users, as they were accustomed to using the launcher rather than the menu structure and they thought their email was "broken".

Is this symptom still reproducible in a distribution upgrade to 8.10 RC or later?

Presumably yes, unless you renamed all the executables back (which would break upgrades from 8.08 to 8.10, etc).

According to packages.ubuntu.com, the 'thunderbird' package still does not contain /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird; neither has this been fixed in hardy; hence reopening.

A simple fix would be to ship a '/usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird' symlink that points at /usr/bin/thunderbird.

ok, i agree that we should fix this.

i assume that this applies everywhere where thunderbird was introduced.

The same applies to mozilla-firefiox -> firefox. Should I file a separate bug against that package, or can this bug be marked as 'found' in it?

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:22:45PM -0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> The same applies to mozilla-firefiox -> firefox. Should I file a
> separate bug against that package, or can this bug be marked as 'found'
> in it?
>

Sam, I think firefox has been renamed for long enough. AFAIK dapper
shipped "firefox" too.

 - Alexander

This bug was fixed in the package thunderbird - 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.9.04.1

---------------
thunderbird (2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.9.04.1) jaunty; urgency=low

  (cherry pick rev 98 from lp:~mozillateam/thunderbird/thunderbird.dev)
  * fix LP: #345189 - thunderbird 2 treats pixel sized system fonts as
    if they were point sized, which causes for to HUGE fonts
    - add debian/patches/lp345189_absolute_font_sizing.patch
    - update debian/patches/series

  (cherry pick rev 101 from lp:~mozillateam/thunderbird/thunderbird.dev)
  * fix LP: #145716 - panel launcher breaks on upgrade; we provide a
    compatibility link for the old mozilla-thunderbird binary
    - update debian/thunderbird.links

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:41:05 +0200

The 18 month support period for Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 has reached its end of life -
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-7.10-eol . As a result, we are closing the
Gutsy task.

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the report. The bug has been fixed in newer releases of Ubuntu.