Bug#860022: unblock: bsd-mailx/8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3.1 (pre-approval)

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Thorsten Glaser:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> I would like to request a pre-approval before uploading a fixed
> package. The bug in question is #859935 (bsd-mailx sends 8bit
> messages without MIME headers).
> 
> I consider this release-critical as it’s a regression for the
> “mailx” command/interface: in jessie, one could just use U-A to
> select heirloom-mailx for mailx, which handled this correctly.
> 
> I wish to ask for inclusion of this to stretch because bsd-mailx
> is now the only “mailx” provider, and this is relatively easy to
> fix.
> 
> The patch is here:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=859935;filename=bsd-mailx_8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3.0teckids1.debdiff;msg=5
> (would of course be uploaded as -3.1)
> 
> The impact of the patch is:
> 
> If the user does not specify any additional header (with the ‘-a’
> option), then and only then does it add MIME-Version, Content-Type
> (text/plain; charset=<whatever the current POSIX locale uses>) and
> Content-Transfer-Encoding (8bit) headers. Otherwise, nothing is
> changed compared to before the patch.
> 
> [...]

Hi,

If the maintainer agrees with you on it, I am happy to accept that patch
for stretch.  Mind you, I am also open to reviewing his proposal of
adding those headers even with -a (letting -a override the
auto-generated ones when there is a conflict).

Thanks,
~Niels