Re: Please unblock slrn 0.9.8.1pl1-28

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> Norbert Tretkowski wrote:
>> I decided to disable the charset patch introduced in -22 again, 
>> because it leads to some problems which I think aren't acceptable 
>> for a stable release (e.g. #411667).
>>
>> Please unblock slrn 0.9.8.1pl1-28 which has this patch disabled.
>
> Your upload seems to disable three different patches, not just one;
> why was it not sufficient to disable the last, "fallback_charset" patch,
> given that it was stated in the bug report that the crash only happens
> when fallback_charset is set?

Because there are too much broken newsreaders in the world (see #406210) which
do not declare a charset in the header of articles, and there's no way to specify
a default charset for broken articles with only the charset patch enabled (without
the fallback_charset patch).

	Norbert