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Icedove still mentioned in stable install doc



The Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide at https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/index.html.en mentions Icedove as the current name for Thunderbird.

Pages
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s05.html.en
and
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch08s05.html.en

read "[...] or Mozilla's thunderbird (in Debian available as icedove[19]) [...]" with [19] "The reason that thunderbird has been renamed to icedove in Debian has to do with licensing issues. Details are outside the scope of this manual.".

https://wiki.debian.org/Thunderbird claims that Icedove as been replaced by Thunderbird as of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=816679/.


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