Bug#1016009: reportbug: Paranoid mode shows base64 instead of human readible text

[anonymous coward <debbug.reportbug@sideload.33mail.com>]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.10.3+deb11u1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: a11y
X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.reportbug@sideload.33mail.com

Using the --paranoid option shows the text of the bug report before
transmission. In my case, the body is usually base64 encoded, which
means only the headers are readible to a human.

There may be some debugging or academic merit to showing the base64,
but this is not generally what the user is interested in.  This can be
improved in a couple ways:

1) After the headers, instead of showing multiple screens full of
base64, just print 1 line like:

  «115 lines of base64-encoded text»

and follow that with:

  [decoded body]
  …
  …

«OR»

2) show just the decoded msg, but give an extra option in the prompt
to show the verbatim raw msg for those who are interested.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-16-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.2.4
ii  python3            3.9.2-3
ii  python3-reportbug  7.10.3+deb11u1
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.14

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                      <none>
pn  debconf-utils                   <none>
pn  debsums                         <none>
pn  dlocate                         <none>
ii  emacs-bin-common                1:27.1+1-3.1
ii  file                            1:5.39-3
ii  gnupg                           2.2.27-2+deb11u2
ii  postfix [mail-transport-agent]  3.5.13-0+deb11u1
ii  python3-urwid                   2.1.2-1
pn  reportbug-gtk                   <none>
ii  xdg-utils                       1.1.3-4.1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                2.2.4
ii  file               1:5.39-3
ii  python3            3.9.2-3
ii  python3-apt        2.2.1
ii  python3-debian     0.1.39
ii  python3-debianbts  3.1.0
ii  python3-requests   2.25.1+dfsg-2
ii  sensible-utils     0.0.14

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

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