cron: non-canonical MIME charset used in mail

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Hi Malcolm, did you submit your change to upstream?

If you want this to be fixed in Ubuntu before we get a new upstream package, you'll need to rebase this change against saucy.

Thanks!

Thank you for your work there, could you reply to the comments made by Dmitry? Before doing a SRU we need the bug fixed in the current serie and the patch to be sent upstream if possible.

If you want a stable update to precise it would also be good to provide the SRU informations: test case, impact of the bug, regression potential (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates)

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968
X-Cron-Env: <LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/root>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root>

...and special characters aren't not well shown by webmail such gmail and others...

This bug was fixed in the package cron - 3.0pl1-127ubuntu1

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cron (3.0pl1-127ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable. Remaining changes:
    - debian/control:
      + Move MTA to Suggests field.
    - debian/cron.upstart: Add Upstart script.
    - debian/rules: Call dh_installinit to install Upstart job properly.
    - d/cron.default: change to a deprecated message to make it clear
      that the file is no longer in use.

cron (3.0pl1-127) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Drop $READ_ENV from cron's command line. It does not belong there.
    Closes: #766779

cron (3.0pl1-126) unstable; urgency=low

  * Packaging (general): removed unused files from the source that had been
    already removed in 3.0pl1-117 but got reintroduced due to a merge.

cron (3.0pl1-125) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Acknowledge NMUs. Thanks, Laurent Bigonville and Ansgar Burchardt.
    Closes: #749271

  [ Christian Kastner ]
  * debian/control:
    - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6 (no changes needed)
    - Canonicalize Vcs-* URLs
  * debian/copyright:
    - Bump years
    - Don't use spaces in License short name
  * debian/source/lintian-overrides:
    - Drop overrides from pre-UTF-8 debian/control era
  * debian/rules:
    - Extend documentation
  * debian/cron.init:
    - Include winbind in Should-Start/Stop. Closes: #732203
  * crontab.5:
    - Don't use hyphen as a minus sign
  * cron.8:
    - Drop stray words in cron.8. Thanks, Regid Ichira! Closes: #702091
    - Fix misspelled 'sytem'. Thanks, green! Closes: #753775
  * cron.c,crontab.c:
    - Use basename of argv[0] as syslog tag. Closes: #752750
  * cron.c:
     - Use case-insensitive comparison in charset selection. Thanks,
       Malcolm Scott! LP: #1169160
  * entry.c:
    - Detect invalid entry: step specified without a range. Thanks,
      Justin T. Pryzby! Closes: #733478
    - Error out when a command field is too long instead of silently
      truncating it. Closes: #686223, LP: #826702
  * do_command.c:
    - Fix initialization and increment of mailed bytes counter.
      Closes: #691488
  * cron.c, do_command.c:
    - Add an option -n to include FQDN in mail subject. Closes: #570423

  [ brian m. carlson ]
  * config.h, do_command.c:
    - Send proper 8-bit emails by including an appropriate MIME-Version and
      adjusting the Content-Transfer-Encoding header accordingly.
      Closes: #694686

  [ Javier Fernández-Sanguino ]
  * Change systemd definition in order for the daemon to read an honor
    /etc/default/cron (Closes: #754279)

cron (3.0pl1-124.2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * debian/cron.service: Set IgnoreSIGPIPE=false. (Closes: #756047)
  * debian/cron.service: Add Documentation field.
 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Mon, 27 Oct 2014 10:19:21 +0100