Bug#489851: libmime-perl: MIME::Entity->new(source) does not work

[Gabor Kiss]

Package: libmime-perl
Version: 5.420-0.1
Severity: normal

MIME::Entity(3pm) writes:

    new [SOURCE]
       Class method.  Create a new, empty MIME entity.  Basically, this
       uses the Mail::Internet constructor...

       If SOURCE is an ARRAYREF, it is assumed to be an array of lines
       that will be used to create both the header and an in-core body.

       Else, if SOURCE is defined, it is assumed to be a filehandle from
       which the header and in-core body is to be read.

However MIME::Entity::new($fh) calls Mail::Internet::new($fh) that
finally calls $self->body($fh) that is unfortunately overridden by
MIME::Entity::body(). What gets crashed due to its argument.
(I assume the same problem with ARRAYREF.)

I suggest to modify manual.

Eryq (the author) says MIME::Parser is a better choice to read
preformatted MIME files anyway.

Gabor

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.3
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libmime-perl depends on:
ii  libconvert-binhex-perl      1.119-2      Perl5 module for extracting data f
ii  libio-stringy-perl          2.110-2      Perl5 modules for IO from scalars 
ii  libmailtools-perl           1.74-1       Manipulate email in perl programs
ii  perl                        5.8.8-7etch3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

libmime-perl recommends no packages.

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