Bug#610703: bug webpages should use white-space: pre-wrap

["James Y Knight" <foom@fuhm.net>]

Don Armstrong wrote:
> The solution is to actually change styles for messages which use
> format=flowed, not change it for messages which properly insert
> linebreaks.

I'm afraid you've misunderstood the issue. There is no problem in debbugs
related to format=flowed. The whole point of format=flowed mail is that it
*does* insert linebreaks. So as long as the reader doesn't decode the
format=flowed encoding (which debbugs does not), it looks almost like
80char-wrapped-text.

However, Apple mail no longer uses format=flowed. Now (since OSX 10.6.2),
it simply sends long lines (encoded with quoted-printable if necessary to
ensure the lines don't exceed the line limit in the SMTP transaction).

Also, changing the style to "pre-wrap" won't normally have any impact at
all on hard-wrapped mail, since user's browser windows aren't generally <
80 columns wide. So it seems to me like a no-lose change to make to the
CSS.