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Re: More bugs.debian.org MIME work



On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 11:20:32AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> bugs.debian.org's web interface now decodes each part of MIME messages
> for display, so for example quoted-printable and (God forbid)
> base64-encoded text is now displayed in a readable form. In addition,
> attachments are now only displayed as a download link rather than as a
> download link plus the full encoded attachment.
> 
> In general, this seems to make bug reports much more readable. If you
> need to turn it off for some reason, append "&mime=no" to the URL to
> make the system revert to the old-style display.
> 
> (MIME header encoding, such as "=?iso-8859-15?q?...?=", is still not
> decoded readably, nor is there any recoding performed to a common
> character set. There are patches for that around that I intend to try to
> merge.)

Is there any chance of these changes being merged into the debbugs
package? It's last update is over a year old...

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