678877 - No way to get Thunderbird for linux-x86_64 - should offer 64bit downloads on all.html

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Thunderbird, defect)

Description

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/ with a 64-bit Linux browser (I used SeaMonkey 2.5a1 for linux-x86_64).
==> The green download button says
  Thunderbird
  Free Download
  5.0 for Linux i686
  English (US)

2. Click "Other Systems and Languages" just below the green button

Actual Results:
This brings us to http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all.html :
- There are only three "OS" columns: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux (where "Linux" means Linux for 32-bit i686).
- There is no "Contributed builds" link
- The link, "Other Thunderbird Downloads" on the right side, offers other versions but for the same three OSes
- The link, "THUNDERBIRD, Other Systems and Languages" at bottom left, links back to the page where we already are.
- No way to reach http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/5.0/linux-x86_64/ or one of its ancestors, or to learn that they exist.

Expected results:
- If Thunderbird for Linux x86_64 is an official release, it should be possible to download it from the official Thunderbird site.
- Even if it is still regarded as unofficial, there should be a way (a "Contributed builds" link somewhere at the bottom for instance) to reach its releases.mozilla.org page from the "Other Systems and Languages" page.

Comment 1

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Mass-moving Thunderbird-specific bugs to the new www.mozilla.org/thunderbird component.

If you believe that this particular bug was moved in error, feel free to move it back to the www.mozilla.org component.

Filter bugmail on 'sancyouverymuch'.

Comment 2

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

Ugh, forgot to reset the QA contact.

Still filter bugmail with 'sancyouverymuch'.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Yep, we should add this (firefox has it too). 
I guess moving to bedrock would kind of fix it in the process... bug 836461.

If that's not happening anytime soon apparently the drivertools script (generateThunderbirdDetails.py [1]) should be updated to add it. Doesn't seem I can get it to work with the latest release though... uncommited changes somewhere? 

[1] http://hg.mozilla.org/users/bugzilla_standard8.plus.com/drivertools/fi
le/default/website/generateThunderbirdDetails.py

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Adding to thunderbird details and generatingThunderbirdDetails probably wouldn't be enough, I think there's a bunch of other work that's necessary to do this - especially when you look in Firefox's version and realise that hasn't got linux64 explicitly specified.

Comment 6

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Ditto for the beta:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html

Comment 7

[John Hesling [:John99] (NeedInfo me)]

I guess this got fixed.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all/ has 64bit Linux
 
However /all-beta.html is still displaying only the one set for Linux, presumably 32bit

Comment 8

[Kohei Yoshino]

Yes, the Beta page still needs to be solved.

Comment 9

[Kohei Yoshino]

Fixed in Bug 1150649.