Re: Bug#3253: Pine over-encodes files (came from Bug#932)
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Juergen Menden wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> >
> > I know your position on the subject backwards and forwards.
> > It doesn't matter!
> > The Pine Developers have made themselves equally clear on this subject.
> > They are not going to change this "feature".
>
> well, before you close this bug, can you please tell me what
> stopps us from changeing this behaviour in our diff file?
I assume you mean modify the source to change the behavior? There are two
reasons for not doing this. First, it would create a version of Pine that
was vastly different than all others versions in existance. This would not
fix the problem of recieving such mail, as all the other versions of Pine
would still have this behavior. Second, just how would the feature be
crippled? Remove the attachement facility entirely? If not, how does one
determine whether mime encoding should occur? Must the message be 7 bit
clean?
>
> i thought we all agree that this behaviour, although the
> upstream developers call it a feature, should be considered
> a bug?!
>
Well ... some (not all) do agree with you, but others don't. If everyone
agreed with you, there would be no use of this feature and it would not be
a problem
> jjm
>
> ps: if this is question is already discussed in length too,
> i apologize. sometimes i'm not able to read every single
> msg on debian-devel... ;-((
>
This has been discussed at length, but a quick rehash for new maintainers
is probably a good idea ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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