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



Your message dated Tue, 18 Apr 2017 07:23:00 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#860022: Bug#859935: Bug#860022: unblock: bsd-mailx/8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3.1 (pre-approval)
has caused the Debian Bug report #860022,
regarding unblock: bsd-mailx/8.1.2-0.20160123cvs-3.1 (pre-approval)
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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.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unreleased
  APT policy: (500, 'unreleased'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: x32 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, amd64

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/lksh
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

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Robert Luberda:
> Niels Thykier wrote:
>>
>>  * Should we update some documentation to reflect these changes?  Like a
>>    man page or so?
> 
> I've updated man page and added NEWS entry. Attached is full debdiff.
> Could you please look at it?
> 
>>
>> Re: 7-bit only.  You are right that would be even better in the long run
>> as it would not require a 8bit compatible MTA unnecessarily.  Though
>> that smells like a post release thing.
> 
> Yes, it surely will be too big change to do it now.
> 
> Thanks,
> robert
> 

Unblocked, thanks.

~Niels

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