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icedove clears user data on upgrade

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From: Nicholas von Klitzing <nicholas <at> nvk.pm>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: "53250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <53250 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#53250: icedove clears data
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:44:47 +0000

Hi Maxime,

It seems that this issue is describing the new fix that is needed:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/33734

Only a simple patch would be necessary:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/acat/tor-browser/-/commit/92f480c30178c0847e6866a4115a9393f1d49a28

Kind regards,
Nicholas

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On Friday, January 14th, 2022 at 2:52 PM, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> wrote:

> Nicholas von Klitzing via Bug reports for GNU Guix schreef op vr 14-01-
>
> 2022 om 12:02 [+0000]:
>
> > A brief follow up:
> >
> > It seems the ~/.icedove folder is not used by icedove (it was probably a relic of when I used icedove-wayland).
> >
> > Now looking into ~./thunderbird instead I see several more profiles.
> >
> >     nicholas <at> guix14 ~/.thunderbird$ ls
> >     bv7r86h9.default/            installs.ini               profiles.ini
> >     gdmykixq.default-default-1/  k6sjw3jm.default-default/
> >     nicholas <at> guix14 ~/.thunderbird$ cat profiles.ini
> >     [Profile2]
> >     [...]
> >     [Profile1]
> >     [...]
> >     [Profile0]
> >     [...]
> >     [Install281FC43567D8867D]
> >     [General]
> >     [...]
> >     [Install3F4F07DFB18472B1]
> >     [...]
> >
> >
> > Launching icedove with `icedove -p` and then iterating through the 3 listed profiles all leads to a blank profile, except for default-default. The default-default profile contains all of my mail account and settings.
> >
> > I now set default-default to be my main profile (resolving my issue) but I doubt this is what users expect the software to do.
> >
> > Is it possible that icedove creates a new profile on upgrades and sets it as default? I definitely did not manually create 3 profiles.
>
> Maybe take a look at the following code in 'icedove':
>
> ;; Fixes issue where each installation directory generates its
>
> own profile.
>
> ;; See e.g.
>
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31457
>
> (add-after 'patch-source-shebangs 'fix-profile-setting
>
> (lambda _
>
> (substitute* "comm/mail/moz.configure"
>
> (("MOZ_DEDICATED_PROFILES, True")
>
> "MOZ_DEDICATED_PROFILES, False"))
>
> #t))
>
> Seems like this was fixed at some point but the fix broke?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Maxime.

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