Control: tags -1 confirmed moreinfo Thorsten Glaser: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@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
