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and subject line Bug#1129594: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #447412,
regarding sylpheed: complains about a failed code conversion that I never
requested
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447412: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=447412
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: sylpheed
Version: 2.4.5-1
Severity: normal
Hi!
After composing a message with some UTF-8 (non-latin1) characters in it
(e.g.: cyrillic letters), and clicking the Send later button, I get the
following error message:
| Code conversion error
| Can't convert the character encoding of the message body
| from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1.
|
| Send it as UTF-8 anyway?
|
| [ No ] [ Yes ]
If I answer Yes, the message seems to be correctly queued for sending
(and sent, when I click on the Send button in the general tool bar).
The problem is: why does Sylpheed complain in the first place?
Who did ask it to perform a UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 code conversion?
I configured Sylpheed without ever choosing ISO-8859-1 in any
setting whatsoever. I set Automatic "Transfer encoding" (but I also
tried quoted-printable, with no useful effect in making the error
message disappear...).
Hence no code conversion to ISO-8859-1 was requested by me, and this
error message should not appear!
I even recursively grep'ed my ~/.sylpheed-2.0/ directory in order to
check whether there was some ISO-8859-1 setting buried somewhere for
some reason, but there's no such thing, it seems:
$ grep -R latin /home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/
$ grep -R 8859 /home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Greek (ISO-8859-7)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Western European (ISO-8859-1)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Arabic (ISO-8859-6)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Arabic (ISO-8859-6)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Greek (ISO-8859-7)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Western European (ISO-8859-15)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Turkish (ISO-8859-9)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Baltic (ISO-8859-4)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Baltic (ISO-8859-13)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Baltic (ISO-8859-4)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Cyrillic (ISO-8859-5)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Turkish (ISO-8859-9)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Central European (ISO-8859-2)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Baltic (ISO-8859-13)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Hebrew (ISO-8859-8)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Hebrew (ISO-8859-8)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Western European (ISO-8859-15)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Compose>/View/Character
encoding/Central European (ISO-8859-2)" "")
/home/frx/.sylpheed-2.0/menurc:; (gtk_accel_path "<Main>/View/Character
encoding/Western European (ISO-8859-1)" "")
What's wrong?
What did I fail to understand?
Please note that this bug is related to #328516, but is not a
duplicate...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages sylpheed depends on:
ii libaspell15 0.60.5-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbluetooth2 3.11-1 Library to use the BlueZ Linux Blu
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1+b2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcompfaceg1 1:1.5.2-4 Compress/decompress images for mai
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-5 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpg-error0 1.4-2 library for common error values an
ii libgpgme11 1.1.5-2 GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libgtkspell0 2.0.10-3+b1 a spell-checking addon for GTK's T
ii libldap2 2.1.30.dfsg-13.5 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libonig2 5.9.0-0.1 Oniguruma regular expressions libr
ii libpango1.0-0 1.18.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpisock9 0.12.2-10 library for communicating with a P
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8e-9 SSL shared libraries
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-7 userspace USB programming library
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages sylpheed recommends:
ii aspell-en [aspell-dic 6.0-0-5.1 English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii aspell-it [aspell-dic 0.60.20060723ds1-1 The Italian dictionary for GNU Asp
pn claws-mail-tools <none> (no description available)
ii metamail 2.7-53 implementation of MIME
ii sylpheed-i18n 2.4.5-1 Locale data for Sylpheed (i18n sup
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 3.8.0~beta1-3+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package sylpheed has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1129594
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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