Comment 17 for bug 20055

Message-ID: <20050919161300.GA6279@lrd5-64>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:13:00 -0700
From: Larry Doolittle <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#323956: doesn't reproduce on my debian box

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I summarized my "research" with:
> [T]his might not apply to debian at all.

Michelle Konzack chimed in with:
> It does not affect Debian, but Mandrake and Redhat... :-)

Florian Weimer asked:
> Can you rule out that it's not reproducible with some other charset?

I can't rule anything out. If I understand the bug reports
and examples correctly, the charset in question is the one
specified in the e-mail header, and is therefore part of
the example mbox files. The only technical discussion I
can find on-line is on the mutt mailing list:
  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379
and that faded away without resolution a month ago. There
is no (current & relevant) activity regarding handler.c
in the mutt CVS tree. Tamotsu's patch has been ignored.

So this still looks to me like a non-bug for Debian.
If the mutt developers don't understand and can't reproduce
it, I'm reluctant to spend much effort on the Debian side.

If Michelle has personally confirmed it affects Mandrake and
Redhat, maybe (s)he can use one of those systems to try the
test program posted by Thomas Roessler at
  http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8383
For the record, my debian sid system gives the result
rv = 0, errno = 0 (?)
'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*'

      - Larry

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