[Reportbug-maint] Bug#646573: UTF-8 characters in subject are passed to MUA encoded

[martin f krafft]

Package: reportbug
Version: 6.2.1
Severity: normal

I just submitted #646571 and that only worked through some magic.
The problem, which I only noticed much later, was that reportbug
spawned mutt with a subject line verbatim
"=?utf-8?q?mac=E2=86=92eui64_conversion_not_working?=", which mutt
then, of course, encoded to US-ASCII. debbugs seems to handle the
case properly, but reportbug should not encode subject lines when
passing them to MUA via a plain-text API.

-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"
VISUAL="/usr/bin/vim"
DEBEMAIL="madduck at debian.org"
DEBFULLNAME="martin f. krafft"
INTERFACE="text"

** /home/madduck/.reportbugrc:
mode expert
ui text
bts debian
submit
mutt
query-bts
no-cc
config-files
compress
verify
check-available

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt               0.8.15.8
ii  python            2.6.7-3 
ii  python-reportbug  6.2.1   

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
ii  debconf-utils                            1.5.41     
ii  debsums                                  <none>     
ii  dlocate                                  <none>     
ii  emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common  <none>     
ii  file                                     5.09-1     
ii  gnupg                                    1.4.11-3   
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]           2.8.5-1    
ii  python-gtk2                              2.24.0-2   
ii  python-gtkspell                          <none>     
ii  python-urwid                             <none>     
ii  python-vte                               1:0.28.1-2 
ii  xdg-utils                                1.1.0~rc1-2

-- no debconf information


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