Package: libmimelib1c2a
Version: 5:1.1.4-1
Severity: important

Maybe this doesn't bear any relevance now, but from my specific point of
view this issue just ruined most of my day.

I am a KDE user and have been running KDE 3.5 for a long time.  I have
been deferring the upgrade to KDE 4 due to KDE's horrendous history of
breaking essential features in new releases for idiotic reasons or plain
negligence, and also because even upstream kept saying that KDE 4 wasn't
ready for prime time until at least 4.2.

So I'm still on 3.5.9 and happy with it, waiting for 4.3 to appear in
testing.  However, I recently did upgrade all the rest of my packages to
current Squeeze.  This then broke decoding of PGP/MIME encrypted messages
by KMail.

Today I found out about libmimelib1c2a having been replaced by a build
from a new mimelib1 source package that is supposed to be ABI compatible
with that from kdelibs 3.5.9.  It seems that it is not compatible.

KMail doesn't crash, but it displays PGP/MIME encrypted messages (at least
ones generated by KMail itself) as blank messages with two attachments:
- "unnamed" (application/pgp-encrypted)
- "msg.asc" (application/octet-stream)

Even if you aren't going to dive into the mimelib/kmail guts and try to
fix this, please change the ABI version and binary package name so any
other leftover users of KDE 3.5.9 (such as users of Lenny who decide to
move to current Squeeze) won't get bitten by this in the future.

-Julian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable'), (80, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-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 libmimelib1c2a depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.9-23     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-1  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.1-1    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

libmimelib1c2a recommends no packages.

libmimelib1c2a suggests no packages.

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