[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#706045: Bug#706045: help?

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 09:07 +0200, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Apr 2013, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > I do wonder how many people this actually affects if it's been known
> > about since 2011 and not reported to Debian before.
> 
> The problem occurs only, if the user sets the mimedecode option. That 
> option is used to convert quoted-printable to 8-bit in MIME messages, 
> which I *think* is quite an exotic feature, which not many people will 
> use, since most mail clients should be able to handle quoted-printable by 
> themselves.
[...]
> But still, data loss for the user can occur, which we absolutely 
> and certainly do not want to inflict on anybody.

Indeed. From the release perspective, however, the question we're
concerned with is whether the issue is severe enough that it /must/ be
fixed before the release.

If it only occurs when a non-default option is used and has affected
fetchmail since before the squeeze release without any users reporting
it, my inclination at this stage is that the above is not the case.

Regards,

Adam