run-mailcap script contains deprecated unsescaped left brace

[Kat Cannon-MacMartin]

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:

$comm =~ s!%{(.*?)}!$_="'$ENV{$1}'";s/\`//g;s/\'\'//g;$_!ge;

should instead read:

$comm =~ s!%\{(.*?)}!$_="'$ENV{$1}'";s/\`//g;s/\'\'//g;$_!ge;

Because of this issue, run-mailcap displays a warning each time it runs (although actual functionality is not inhibited)

I took a look at the latest edition of the package, 3.60, and this issue is fixed in that version. Xenial, however, still uses 3.59. Is this fix coming to Xenial any time soon?

[Kat Cannon-MacMartin (trenzafeeds)]

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.