Among the 24 debian patches available in version 1:140.7.1esr-1 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

• 1 patch with invalid metadata that ought to be fixed.
• 18 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

The packages that thunderbird depends on which need a new maintainer are:

• libidl (#738870)
  • Build-Depends: libidl-dev
• hunspell-kk (#879871)
  • Recommends: hunspell-kk
• ifrench-gut (#1006643)
  • Recommends: myspell-fr-gut
• uzbek-wordlist (#841696)
  • Recommends: hunspell-uz
• wireless-tools (#963896)
  • Build-Depends: libiw-dev

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit 2aec18de69569719a9d8c9f1e43ea5a7c3f0d13d
Author: Paul Gevers <elbrus@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 1 13:25:01 2022 +0000

    tests: help.sh is really a very superficial test, so let's mark it as such
    
    Closes: #1120427

commit 3b9f76bb979687f4b217be4c5ddb88b92beb2c49
Author: Christoph Goehre <chris@sigxcpu.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 12 09:52:51 2025 +0100

    rebuild patch queue from patch-queue branch
    
    added patches:
    porting-loong64/loong64-Add-loongarch64-detection-to-third_party-botan.patch

AppStream found metadata issues for packages:

• thunderbird: 1 warning

You should get rid of them to provide more metadata about this software.

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.