Hi, > > 2. in my follow-up, I showed that in 16.04, legitimate HTML mail breaks > > the > > UI. This has nothing to do with spoofing - KMail breaks when opening > > random, legitimate mail. I cannot even click any controls in the mail view > > anymore. This affects daily, normal work with KMail and makes it unusable > > for reading legitimate mail. That is the definition of "grave > > functionality > > bug". > > Yes, it breaks but: > > - only on certain mails. Not any mail shows this behaviour. In fact I > haven't even seen it before and I use kmail daily. > > - you can change the way headers are displayed and this bug doesn't shows up > (I have just tried your example with "Fancy headers"), so there is a known > work around.
That'd be ok if I chose some header format in the first place. I am using what KMail imposes on me (changing with every version). As a matter of fact, after the upgrade, KMail imposed a new header layout on me *and* failed to display some e-mail messages correctly. Maybe not overriding user settings with every upgrade would be a good starting poitn (I do not know whether this should address the Debian maintainers or upstream). > > So it might be annoying for you, but considering the above it does not meets > the RC criterion at least from the usability side. OK… I still do not agree with that, though. > > On the other hand, please avoid expressions that might sound harsh like > "Please do something!" and "Did you read all of this bug report?". Always do > your best to be kind. After all you already did the only thing we can do: > report the bug upstream. We are volunteers trying to make things happen, we > do not get paid for doing this and definitely we are not your employees. A > little respect goes a long way :) Well, this bug report has been open for almost half a year without any reaction whatsoever, neither by upstream nor by a maintainer. Instead, with another upgrade, it even got worse. I understand that both upstream and maintainers are volunteers, but they agreed on reacting to certain kinds of bug reports within a reasonable time. I know that if I completely ignored a security bug in one of my packages for several months, I'd be beheaded by my sponsors. Doing something in your freetime does not mean users can't get annoyed when the software they use gets worse instead of better. Cheers, Nik -- PGP-Fingerprint: 3C9D 54A4 7575 C026 FB17 FD26 B79A 3C16 A0C4 F296 Dominik George · Mobil: +49-1520-1981389 Teckids e.V. · FrOSCon e.V. · OpenRheinRuhr e.V. Fellowship of the FSFE · Piratenpartei Deutschland Opencaching Deutschland e.V. · Debian Contributor LPIC-3 Linux Enterprise Professional (Security)
