https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847604
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847604#c8
--- Comment #8 from Craig Arno 2013-10-26 22:43:46 UTC ---
I finally had the time to sift through information in Graham Davis links in
Comment #5 (thank you for the links). The relevant part is as follows:
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Stefan Sitter 2013-10-25 07:13:43 PDT
The Mozilla toolkit developers introduced a strict dependencies mechanism on
Linux that affects extensions with binaries components like Lightning.
Therefore each Thunderbird release currently requires its own Lightning
release.
Use Lightning 2.6 for Thunderbird 24.0
Use Lightning 2.6.1 for Thunderbird 24.0.1
Use Lightning 2.6.2 for the soon to be released Thunderbird 24.1
There is work going on to loosen up this dependencies mechanism but it will
take some time until this patch is available in Thunderbird.
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I followed the same procedure as Comment #7 to install Thunderbird 24.0.1 which
then upgraded Lighting 1.9.1 to 2.6.1. Now everything works again.
It looks to me like this is a design problem where the cure is worse than the
problem. Stefan Sitter (appears to run the bug show at Mozilla) says designers
are still working the problem of loosening a new dependencies mechanism. In
other words these are the effects of releasing an infant design.
I hope the effects of the next revision will be more transparent to end users.
I'm glad to have OpenSUSE / Thunderbird / Lightning all working together again.
Back to my own regularly scheduled tasks.
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