Package: vpim
Version: 0.695-1.5
Severity: serious

Half of the shipped binaries just crash:

% mutt-aliases-to-vcf
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:760: warning: assigned but unused 
variable - v
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:1135: warning: assigned but unused 
variable - fn
/usr/bin/mutt-aliases-to-vcf: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:678: 
invalid multibyte escape: /^\xFE\xFF/ (SyntaxError)
invalid multibyte escape: /^\xFF\xFE/
% vcf-dump
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:760: warning: assigned but unused 
variable - v
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:1135: warning: assigned but unused 
variable - fn
/usr/bin/vcf-dump: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:678: invalid 
multibyte escape: /^\xFE\xFF/ (SyntaxError)
invalid multibyte escape: /^\xFF\xFE/
% vcf-to-ics
/usr/bin/vcf-to-ics: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:678: invalid 
multibyte escape: /^\xFE\xFF/ (SyntaxError)
invalid multibyte escape: /^\xFF\xFE/
% vcf-to-mutt
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:760: warning: assigned but unused 
variable - v
/usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:1135: warning: assigned but unused 
variable - fn
/usr/bin/vcf-to-mutt: /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/vpim/vcard.rb:678: invalid 
multibyte escape: /^\xFE\xFF/ (SyntaxError)
invalid multibyte escape: /^\xFF\xFE/

The ICS Repo support relies on a plist library, but the package does
not depend on one, as such that code just crashes.

It's clear this package has not been used by anybody except for very
limited use cases, and the NMUs were mostly a waste of time...

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