Bug#568230: bugs.debian.org: "forwarded" tags should gracefully ignore line breaks
On Mon, 19 Sep 2022, fabian@greffrath.com wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:09:22 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > > The reason is that my mail client breaks lines if they are longer
> > > than 70 characters.
> >
> > If your mail client is unable to send messages with long lines, your
> > mail client is fundamentally broken.
> >
> > If you don't want to fix your MUA, use the bts command line tools
> > instead.
>
> Could this sentiment probably get reconsidered?
The problem is that there is no easy way for the bug tracking system to
reliably know whether the next line is part of the previous line or a
new line.
For example if you wanted to retitle a bug like so:
retitle 1234 this bug demonstrates broken forwarded data: forwarded 1235 https://foo
should that look like this:
retitle 1234 this bug demonstrates broken forwarded data:
forwarded 1235 https://foo
We probably could support a line continuation escape (like \), but that
would require a bit of a change management process to enable.
Eventually we'll get around to supporting modifying things using a UI to
generate mail, which will fix this problem. [Maybe in another 10 years
at this rate?]
--
Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com
But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
disappointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
-- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
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