Bug#511778: please accept Cc pseudo-header as an alias for X-Debbugs-Cc
* Don Armstrong [Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:02:20 -0800]:
> severity 511778 wishlist
Uhm, yes, I forgot about that bit.
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> > I love that X-Debbugs-Cc can be a pseudo-header now. Do you think it
> > would be possible to accept "Cc" as an alias when used as a
> > pseudo-header?
> It would be possible, but I'm not sure if I'm a fan of it. The main
> reason why I supported X-Debbugs-*: in psuedoheaders in the first
> place was for broken MUAs which can't edit the headers. [I assume your
> MUA isn't broken, so you really shouldn't need to be putting them
> there.] (Since those headers have nothing to do with the actual
> content of the bug, they generally shouldn't be getting in the way of
> the content of the bug.)
Yeah, I follow your reasoning. My rationale (which I failed to convey in
my original report) is that explicitly mentioning that you've Cc'ed
somebody is many times valuable information. In that sense, I've more
often than not disliked debbugs hiding who was the report forwarded two.
This is probably a matter of opinion, but personally I would like to see
X-Debbugs-Cc used as a pseudo-header more often, and this was just an
usability improvment towards that.
Cheers,
--
Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
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