Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.22-1 Severity: critical Tags: upstream Justification: causes serious data loss
Hi. This is basically the same as Debian bugs #690741 and #633799. I used severity critical, as the mboxo format causes irrecoverable mail corruption, which is unknown to most users. The details of the problem, what happens and how it can be easily solved are to be found in the upstream bug report. >From the Debian side I would recommned the following (analogously to #690741 and #633799): If ustream _shouldn't_ want to fix this (i.e. by moving to a non-corrupting mbox format) or if it cannot be done in time for wheezy (which is likely), we should appropriately warn our users, e.g. via: - NEWS entry - package description - a debconf warning dialogoue with priority high (but Osamu Aoki has indicated that this may violate the Debian policy). But even when it's fixed, I think we should use appropriate ways (NEWS file) to warn our users that ever since, this issue has existed and their mails are likely affected. To get some numbers,... in my own mail archive (about 3,4 million mails) ~17000 mails are corrupted from this issue. Best wishes, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.5-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
