Bug#428056: Doesn't correctly display text/plain; format=flowed mails
Package: debbugs
Severity: normal
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First, to see what I mean just look at this bugreport via webinterface
and notice how the lines in the Package information-table below starting
with 1(!) whitespace followed by "OR" appear to have 2 whitespaces.
Compare this with the output of your mailclient which should just show 1
whitespace.
The problem is the MimeType format=flowed
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676
4.1. Interpreting Format=Flowed
If the first character of a line is a space, the line has been
space-stuffed (see Section 4.4). Logically, this leading space is
deleted before examining the line further (that is, before checking
for flowed).
If a mail is encoded with format=flowed a line starting with a single
whitespace is encoded with 2 whitespaces. A reasonable mailclient will
strip one whitespace again when a user reads the mail. Unfortunately
debbugs does not. So mails written with reportbug-ng and icedove (which
uses format=flowed by default in plaintext mails) suffer from this
cosmetical issue.
Cheers,
Bastian
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-686
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
===================================-+-===========
perl5 |
OR perl | 5.8.8-7
exim |
OR mail-transport-agent |
libmailtools-perl | 1.74-1
ed | 0.2-20
libmime-perl | 5.420-1
libio-stringy-perl | 2.110-2
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Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de
Debian Developer venthur at debian org
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