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and subject line Bug#812719: fixed in apticron 1.1.60
has caused the Debian Bug report #812719,
regarding apticron: check for mailx as s-nail not working
to be marked as done.
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812719: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812719
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Package: apticron
Version: 1.1.58
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages apticron depends on:
ii apt 1.2
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
pn cron | cron-daemon <none>
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.58
ii dpkg 1.18.4
ii s-nail [mailx] 14.8.6-1
ii ucf 3.0032
Versions of packages apticron recommends:
ii apt-listchanges 2.85.14
ii iproute2 4.3.0-1
apticron suggests no packages.
-- debconf information:
apticron/notification: root
Problem
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Currently, for users using s-nail on their systems, apticron mail
reporting is broken. This is also true for apticron's cron reporting
back to the user.
Although apticron does check for the system mailx as being
heirloom-mailx or bsd-mailx, it doesn't check for s-nail correctly. It
relies on 'readlink -e /usr/bin/mailx' to return "heirloom-mailx",
whereas on my sid system it returns "s-nail".
The reporting email is never sent.
Fix
---
The fix is to check specifically for s-nail rather than rely on readlink
to return a reference to s-nail, as currently it returns mailx instead
of s-nail.
How is this a problem?
----------------------
s-nail uses the '-a' parameter differently to previous versions of
mailx. With previous versions, -a indicated an additional email header
to be included, whereas s-nail uses -a to specify an attachment to be
included with the email.
Since apticron uses -a to set a number of headers, s-nail throws errors
about such as "MIME-Version: 1.0: No such file or directory".
"MIME-Version: 1.0" is meant to be an email header.
--- apticron 2016-01-15 22:16:05.000000000 +0800
+++ /tmp/apticron 2016-01-26 09:25:49.359961187 +0800
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
# implementations in Debian. Make sure we send proper headers, and a
# text/plain content type.
Mailx() {
- if [ "x`readlink -e /usr/bin/mailx`" = "x/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx" ]
+ local MAILER="`readlink -e /usr/bin/mailx`"
+ if [ x$MAILER = "x/usr/bin/heirloom-mailx" -o x$MAILER = "x/usr/bin/s-nail" ]
then
# heirloom-mailx creates correct headers, but needs help
# if the terminal charset (LC_CTYPE) is no UTF-8 locale
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: apticron
Source-Version: 1.1.60
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
apticron, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]> (supplier of updated apticron package)
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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 08:30:55 -0500
Source: apticron
Binary: apticron
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.1.60
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <[email protected]>
Description:
apticron - Simple tool to mail about pending package updates
Closes: 812719
Changes:
apticron (1.1.60) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Fix for s-nail. Thanks to Nick Coleman. (Closes: #812719)
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