Bug#276607: has anyone talked to upstream about this?

[Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org>]

It is my understanding that KDE upstream tries to keep binary compatibility 
within minor releases (i.e. 3.x).  In this case they failed to do so.  Has 
anyone talked to upstream about this case?  The commit that removed this 
function is here:

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&m=107886975019675&w=2

and the cvs log for this commit and ones prior to it are here:

http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdepim/mimelib/headers.cpp

It looks like this function was added as a temporary solution in KDE 3.2, 
and when a better solution was introduced in 3.3, the temporary solution 
was removed (unfortunately, the function in question was exported in 3.2 so 
it was a BIC change).

Josh