Package: mime-support Version: 3.54 Followup-For: Bug #745141 The mutt manual at <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual.html#toc5.3> says this: > Keep the %-expandos away from shell quoting. Don't quote them with > single or double quotes. Mutt does this for you, the right way, as > should any other program which interprets mailcap. Don't put them into > backtick expansions.
This was already discussed on debian-users in 2005: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/04/msg01185.html> The mailcap RFC <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1524.html> does not mention any quoting rule for %s, but specifies the following: > On a UNIX system, such commands will each be a full shell command > line, including the path name for a program and its arguments. > (Because of differences in shells and the implementation and behavior > of the same shell from one system to another, it is specified that the > command line be intended as input to the Bourne shell, i.e., that it > is implicitly preceded by "/bin/sh -c " on the command line.) Considering that there are two quoting formats in shell, a program using mailcap would still need to know how to correctly pass the filename: - if singe quotes are used, a single quote in the file name itself would need to be encoded as '\''. - if double quotes are used, a double quote, dollar sign and back-ticks would still needed to be escaped. As such only the calling application can do it right and properly escape the filename itself for shell use and only then replace the %s with that. So I'm all for not putting quotes in the mailcap file itself but put the burden on those programs using it. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.13.9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash mime-support depends on no packages. Versions of packages mime-support recommends: ii file 1:5.17-1 mime-support suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
