Something to keep in mind the next time you take a shortcut and add a new repository to get the latest & greatest software for your linux distro. Sometimes it is better to apt-get source <pkg name> and run run debian rules binary to get your own packages. Of course, that's not quite working for me with Thunderbird 2 right now...
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