Hi, Antonio Radici wrote:
> Wrapper and news entry to be added in mutt/1.5.21-2 (to go to > experimental). For reference: | mailto-mutt has been replaced by a wrapper as per #576313, because mutt is now | able to handle the mailto: urls; additionally it will also do some checks on | attachments and it will allow us to be as close to upstream as possible Suppose I am a sysadmin on a large multiuser system out in the middle of nowhere (local network with no reliable Internet connectivity) and received this in my mailbox. What does this mean? /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt was _already_ a wrapper (that's what a script is, right?). What am I supposed to tell my users? Of course that is the worst case and in better cases the user can check what the bug is about. So I assumed you meant: The /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt script has been stripped down to a bare-bones wrapper. Please adjust your MAILER configuration to stop using it, because it will disappear in a later version of Debian. in which case, why use a NEWS entry at all? Usual Debian practice is to warn the sysadmin in release notes for the next release, not NEWS for the current one and to warn users through warnings to stderr. No, that's not it... Maybe: The /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt script used to have a complex implementation but now it has been substantially simplified and rewritten to rely more on standard mutt facilities. Expect minor breakage; we'd be interested in any reports. Does that warrant a NEWS entry either? Now that I've read more carefully it seems what was actually mean is mutt version XYZ crippled its handling of mailto URLs for security reasons. Since /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt is a bare-bones wrapper around mutt, this means that it too is crippled. Any attributes in mailto URLs except for subject and body that should be honored must be explicitly allowed using WXYZ configuration directive. Is that it? Regards, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
