GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 768676
Thunderbird plugin crashes Thunderbird
Last modified: 2017-09-24 10:57:47 UTC
See this downstream report (and its duplicates): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1316783 Thunderbird has started to bundle sqlite, and since tracker uses the system's sqlite, it leads to conflicting symbols and a crash. I don't know of any application that has a hard requirement on this plugin, and it is likely that distributions don't ship it by default either - at least Fedora and RHEL don't. So, I would suggest simply dropping it upstream.
Also filed in Mozilla bugzilla as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347008
commit 3c3fe1970ba8e05cf8e5faa3c93caead24944163 Author: Carlos Garnacho <carlosg@gnome.org> Date: Sun Jul 2 16:23:00 2017 +0200 Delete evolution/thunderbird/nautilus/firefox plugins Those are unmaintained, are broken, don't compile, or a combination of all. Sadly there hasn't been enough manpower during the last years to keep those up to par. Future seems shiny enough for nautilus, as the features are being developed in-tree. If anyone ever remembers there were such plugins and misses them enough to take over maintainership, by all means reset to the parent of this commit and take those out of tree. You will have my gratitude. Thanks too to everyone who ever contributed in those plugins, I'm not happy to let that much work go.