On 01/19/2013 01:07 PM, Willi Mann wrote: > What is unclear to me is if inline PGP messages are broken by design. > Bug#698080 more looks like a regression that should be fixable, not an > inherent problem of inline PGP. For attachments, enigmail per default > asks how to send them.
i agree that #698080 is a fixable regression. however, i don't think inline-PGP is "broken by design" for non-ASCII any more than it is "fixed by design" for non-ASCII. there simply is no specification for inline-PGP signatures of messages whose representation is anything but the basic default (text/plain, charset=us-ascii, no special encoding): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-7 As the specification above says, for environments that support MIME (e.g. character-encoding: quoted printable or base64, charset something other than US-ASCII, or content-type other than text/plain), there are other standards to use -- in particular, PGP/MIME. > As far as I understand from reading a few messages from the upstream > mailing list, any possible default setting has the potential to cause > highly controversial discussions. yes, indeed. :( > I not very convinced about deviating from upstream. I could live with > this change if it is acknowledged by upstream, and we treat it as an > experimental change (documented in README.Debian) that we might decide > to take back before the jessie freeze. I'd be fine making it an experimental change, and documenting it in README.Debian. I confess i'm wary of plunging into another 100-message thread on the upstream list, but i'm willing to post a short note there if you think that's advisable. Perhaps something like: With the goal of improving standards-based support for signed non-ASCII messages and signed messages with attachments, the Debian packaging for Enigmail is undertaking an experiment with setting the default to PGP/MIME in our experimental/unstable packaging. We hope this will flush out reports of other places in the ecosystem where PGP/MIME might be suboptimal. This change won't make it into our stable distribution of enigmail without further consideration and review of the reported bugs and places where PGP/MIME causes trouble for our experimental and unstable users. what do you think? I'm happy to write this message to upstream if you like. --dkg
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