On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:13:04PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > On 16/06/16 12:07, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:57:45AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > >> On 23/04/16 14:12, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > >>> Package: request-tracker4 > >>> Version: 4.2.8-3 > >>> > >>> [this is an updated version of my email reply at [1]] > >>> > >>> On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 10:06:26AM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > >>>> Dear RT maintainers, > >>>> > >>>> I'm emailing on behalf of a client of my work, who would like to see a > >>>> backport of RT 4.2.12 from testing to jessie-backports. They are > >>>> experiencing a bug that appears to have been fixed in RT 4.2.10. > >>>> > >>>> The bug itself is to do with converting HTML mail containing tables to > >>>> text, which breaks and results in empty emails being sent. The fix in > >>>> 4.2.10 as I understand it is to use w3m or similar external text-only > >>>> browsers to do the conversion, which is quite an intrusive patch and > >>>> likely unsuitable for inclusion in a stable point release (though I > >>>> admit I haven't looked in any detail). > >>> > >>> Right - I didn't realise that change (or at least the problems it solves) > >>> was as significant as it seems. I'm filing this bug to track the > >>> problem. > >> > >> Hi Dominic, > >> > >> Purely with my work hat on, it would be great to see this problem fixed > >> in Jessie. > [snip] > >> With my DD hat on, is there anything much I can do to help either route > >> along? > > > > Hi, > > > > I'll look at preparing updated packages in the next day or so - obviously > > it would be good if you could work with your client to test the fix > > prior to requesting an upload to stable. > > Hi Dominic, > > Yes, I'm sure we can arrange to do that, no problem.
Hi, Sorry, I'd missed the fact that a new package not jessie was required for the fix, so an update in jessie is probably not going to happen, indeed. I have uploaded a backport to jessie-backports, instead. Best wishes, Dominic.
