In this post we talked about the mishaps which have been common when preparing Thunderbird ESR releases, and version 140.4.0 ESR is no different. Not PhotoShop'ed, you can see it here. The red B's mean that the build failed. Sure, the Thunderbird folks will have another go to get it going, but this is this is already the second attempt, here is the first.
UPDATE: After fixing what is called "build bustage", they got the release built, but they made three mistakes, here listed in declining order of severity:
- They are not using the correct changeset of the Mozilla base software. For version 140, Mozilla did another "build 2" to plug a security vulnerability.
- One patch was backported incorrectly.
- Finally, they pushed all the patches separately, hence increasing the server usage and CO2 footprint.
But who cares about correctness as long as the donation money is flowing in.