Bug#958053: buster-pu: package schleuder/3.4.0-2+deb10u3

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 20:26 +0000, Georg Faerber wrote:
> Schleuder in buster is affected by various problems, which I would
> like
> to fix:
> 
>   - Unfortunately, the encoding fix introduced in the previous
> version,
>     3.4.0-2+deb10u2, had shortcomings if dealing with unencrypted,
> but
>     signed UTF-8 mails or mail parts without a charset. The parsing
>     failed and lead to further errors. This problem was discussed
>     upstream and with downstreams, providers running Schleuder: the
> new
>     approach switches the default external encoding to UTF-8 and
> tries
>     to convert all non-UTF-8 mails. In case this fails, the invalid
>     characters are dropped and a note is added to the mail that this
>     happened. To aid in encoding detection, a new dependency is
> added,
>     ruby-charlock-holmes.
>     
>     While I admit that this change seems invasive for a Debian stable
>     update, this approach received extensive testing in production
> for
>     the last three weeks, with promising results. It handled all the
>     former problematic mails in a graceful manner. In fact, up until
>     now, we weren't able to produce mails which would lead to dropped
>     invalid characters as described above. Personally, I would be
>     grateful if this would get accepted, as I believe that's the
> right
>     thing to do; it'll lead to more happy users.

I'm going to defer to your judgement here, and hope that this turns out
to be the correct fix. Please go ahead.

Regards,

Adam