Warning when GMime is parsing broken email addresses

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 11/20/2010 06:23 AM, Matthieu Lemerre wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:51:59 -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>> Re: Warning when GMime is parsing broken email addresses:
>>
>> On 11/18/2010 01:37 PM, Matthieu Lemerre wrote:
>>> The problem is solved in version 2.4.18 (current is
>>> 2.4.20). Unfortunately the last version packaged for Debian is 2.4.14...
>>
>> is the patch that fixes the problem it backportable to 2.4.14 ?  I'm
>> sure a report to the debian bts with a patch would be appreciated.  even
>> if it doesn't make it into the release because of the freeze, a
>> narrowly-targeted patch might be acceptable for a future point release.
> 
> Don't know. The main problem is that the package seems to have been more
> or less abandoned by its maintainer though... 

That's certainly not the case for upstream, where i recently had
basically the ideal interaction:

  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635152

If you're saying the debian package has been abandoned, that's even more
of a reason to file a debian bug -- i don't see any listed outstanding
issues that might indicate abandonment on either the library package or
its source:

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=libgmime-2.4-2
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=gmime2.4

Filing a bug would help to start documenting abandonment, if that is
indeed the case.  Once it's documented, we can try to do something about it.

Regards,

	--dkg

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