Package: lbdb Version: 0.37 Severity: normal Tags: patch I have VCards with no "real name" for mailing lists, and I'd prefer to keep them that way. I found that the attached patch successfully lets mutt send mail to such entries without inserting a bogus "(null)" realname part.
First, the patch uses sed instead of a shell "while read" loop, because
the read builtin mangles whitespace.
Then the trick is to use a single space character (" ") as the realname
part: mutt's strtok-based parser for the query output will interpret
"foo\t\t(VCF)" as having realname "(VCF)", so the realname part can't be
empty, but if it's a space then mutt will correctly treat the address as
not having a realname part.
(That's probably better implemented by fixing vcquery.c to output a
space if fullname is null, but m_vcf still needs to quit using the
"read" builtin.)
This patch also adds the -e flag to the grep invocation so that a query
like "-dev" is correctly interpreted as a regex, not as additional grep
arguments. That's unrelated, and I suspect other lbdb backends need
similar fixes too.
I hope you'll apply this patch. Thanks!
Jamey
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lbdb depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libvformat1 1.13-6 dummy transitional package for lib
ii perl 5.10.1-20 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lbdb recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lbdb suggests:
pn abook <none> (no description available)
pn finger <none> (no description available)
pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> (no description available)
pn libpalm-perl <none> (no description available)
ii mutt 1.5.21-4 text-based mailreader supporting M
pn procmail <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
--- /usr/lib/lbdb/m_vcf 2010-05-18 11:12:15.000000000 -0700
+++ m_vcf 2011-04-29 14:21:35.007548516 -0700
@@ -38,11 +38,6 @@
fi
fi
- $cmd | grep -i "$QUERY" | (
- while read match
- do
- echo "$match (VCF)"
- done
- )
+ $cmd | grep -ie "$QUERY" | sed 's/(null)$/ /; s/$/\t(VCF)/'
done
}
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