[Reportbug-maint] Bug#885959: reportbug: marks mime type of attachments as inode/symlink

[Adam Borowski]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.8
Severity: normal

Hi!
Reportbug sends attachments with the following mime headers:

Content-Type: inode/symlink
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="jcc_armhf.build"

This confuses some mail clients, which don't want to display the attachment.
The file's content is, as one would expect, what's in the symlink's target.

[/srv/logs]$ file jcc_armhf.build 
jcc_armhf.build: symbolic link to jcc_armhf-2017-12-31T22:33:12Z.build
[/srv/logs]$ file jcc_armhf-2017-12-31T22\:33\:12Z.build 
jcc_armhf-2017-12-31T22:33:12Z.build: UTF-8 Unicode text, with very long lines

This particular bug is https://bugs.debian.org/885955 although obviously it
happens elsewhere as well.


Meow!
-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="jstar"
EMAIL="kilobyte at angband.pl"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/kilobyte/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "6.6.6"
mode advanced
ui text
realname "Adam Borowski"

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-rc5-00024-g8358e4baaa66 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.6~alpha5
ii  python3            3.6.4-1
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.8
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.11

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                               <none>
pn  debconf-utils                            <none>
pn  debsums                                  <none>
pn  dlocate                                  <none>
pn  emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common  <none>
ii  file                                     1:5.32-1
pn  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                           <none>
pn  gir1.2-vte-2.91                          <none>
ii  gnupg                                    2.2.3-1
pn  python3-gi                               <none>
pn  python3-gi-cairo                         <none>
pn  python3-gtkspellcheck                    <none>
pn  python3-urwid                            <none>
ii  ssmtp [mail-transport-agent]             2.64-8+b2
pn  xdg-utils                                <none>

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.6~alpha5
ii  file               1:5.32-1
ii  python3            3.6.4-1
ii  python3-debian     0.1.31
ii  python3-debianbts  2.7.1
ii  python3-requests   2.18.1-1

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information