I realized immediately after submission that this should instead be a
question, before being escalated to the status of "bug". Just curious
why 16.04 doesn't have this fix yet.
** Changed in: mime-support (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
** Converted to question:
Public bug reported:
I am using 16.04 xenial, which the mime-support package 3.59.
The run-mailcap script in the mime-support package contains an unescaped
left brace in the regex statement on line 528.
To be exact, the line that currently reads:
$comm =~