Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Leonardo Taccari
Hello Thomas, Thomas Levine writes: > Oh, oops, I clearly didn't look there. How about mentioning in the > welcome that differences from version 1.6 are noted in > "$PREFIX/share/doc/nmh/NEWS", or just "/usr/local/share/doc/nmh/NEWS"? > I am happy to contribute a patch that renders the former loca

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Thomas, > Oh, oops, I clearly didn't look there. How about mentioning in the > welcome that differences from version 1.6 are noted in > "$PREFIX/share/doc/nmh/NEWS" I think that already happens. $ inc -version inc -- nmh-1.7-RC3 1.7-RC3-0-g106e6652 built 2017-08-23 19:31:10 + on

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Kevin, > % printenv SHELL > /bin/tcsh > % $SHELL -c "cd&&pwd" > localuser:kevinc being removed from access control list /home/kevinc > % The xhost(1) command is modifying the X server it connects to. Doesn't that mean it can be done just once, in ~/.xinitrc, or similar, ra

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi David, Ken wrote: > The others are likely due to a xhost in your .cshrc/.tcshrc, so I > think we can ignore them for now. How about a test that's run at the start of all the test, i.e. before ali(1)'s, that checks «$SHELL -c 'exit 42'» is silent and sets $? to 42? If it's not silent then the e

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Kevin, > - To: recipi...@example.com > - From: sen...@example.com > - Subject: mhfixmsg pass through on parse error > - MIME-Version: 1.0 > - Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="- =_aa0" > - > - --- =_aa0 > - Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1 > - Conten

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Thomas Levine
Hah Since I didn't see that, then I doubt that further usability design on this topic could have helped much. What's more, even without a note, I eventually would have found the NEWS file. So I think it's fine as-is. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-wor

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread David Levine
Ken wrote: > But in THEORY that shouldn't matter, because we should be > overriding that configuration by setting MHMTSCONF in the test suite > which means we should be using that and not an already-existing one. Except we don't in one place in test/format/test-myhost. I think that we shoul

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread heymanj
On 25 August 2017 at 23:13, Ken Hornstein wrote: [ ... send: --notls discussion removed ... ] Binary files /home/jerry/code/nmh-1.7-RC3/test/testdir/21786.draft and /home/jerry/code/nmh-1.7-RC3/test/testdir/21786.expected differ >>> >>> That's ... interesting. >>> ./test/mhbuild/test

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi jerry, > $ file --brief --dereference --mime-type test/mhbuild/nulls > binary Could you tell us about that file(1). I found a site for Mageia packages, but it didn't have one called `file' so I wasn't sure what package contained the command, and where it got the source from, what version, etc

[Nmh-workers] mhm 1.7: -prefer switch

2017-08-26 Thread norm
The -prefer stitch will improve the quality of my life. Norman Shapiro ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread heymanj
On 26 August 2017 at 14:38, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi jerry, > >> $ file --brief --dereference --mime-type test/mhbuild/nulls >> binary > > Could you tell us about that file(1). I found a site for Mageia > packages, but it didn't have one called `file' so I wasn't sure what > package contained t

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Kevin Cosgrove
On 26 August 2017 at 11:28, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > > - To: recipi...@example.com > > - From: sen...@example.com > > - Subject: mhfixmsg pass through on parse error > > - MIME-Version: 1.0 > > - Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="- =_aa0" > > - > > - --- =_a

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
>[jerry@unix nmh-1.7-RC3]$ file --brief --dereference --mime-type >test/mhbuild/nulls >binary Well, that would do it. Sigh. It might be interesting to see what the man pages says for that version of file. But FWIW, on CentOS 7 I have "file 5.11" and it works just fine. I guess these are all b

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
> Here is the information on the file command: > > $ file --version > file-5.16 > magic file from /usr/share/misc/magic > $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/file > file-5.16-1.10.mga4 Thanks, jerry. The commit comments on https://github.com/file/file are poor, but git log -p FILE5_15..HEAD src/funcs.c cert

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread David Levine
Ken wrote: > What do people think we should do about this? We could make > Autoconf reject this file command if it returns something other than > "application/octet-stream" for the "nulls" file. That would be fine. Or, just leave it. Based on Ralph's research, it looks like it's been fixed. D

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread heymanj
On 26 August 2017 at 12:36, David Levine wrote: > Ken wrote: > >> What do people think we should do about this? We could make >> Autoconf reject this file command if it returns something other than >> "application/octet-stream" for the "nulls" file. > > That would be fine. Or, just leave it. Ba

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Ken, I guess pre-1.7 nmh's are bust in the same manner on jerry's >system, so 1.7 is no worse? Do we fudge around `binary'? Sigh. I am gathering it is short inputs that cause the problem. I am thinking maybe we should just do as David suggested and leave it? If it is fixed in newer versions o

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 15:28:37 -0700, Kevin Cosgrove said: > That's coming from my 'xhost -SI:localuser:kevinc' setting which > I use exclusively to keep exmh happy. Ironic. Weird. I've had that commented out in my .xsession for quite some time. I'm using exmh to reply, and: 0 [/usr/share/doc/t

Re: [Nmh-workers] Call for testing of nmh 1.7 release candidate 3

2017-08-26 Thread David Levine
Ken wrote: > If it is fixed in newer versions of file and is only triggered by a small > subset of inputs, I am fine with leaving it. I don't know if the older version supports ~/.magic.mgc or ~/.magic, but if it does, maybe that could be used to work around the problem. David _