Bug#268597: kmail: message composing removes tabs and replaces them with fewer spaces

[Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@linux-systeme.com>]

Package: kmail
Version: 4:3.3.0-2
Severity: important

Hi,

starting with kmail 1.7 from KDE 3.3.0 message composing does not honor tabs in mails.
It removes any tabs used in a mail and replaces them with fewer spaces (not 8 spaces
but less). Previous versions did not remove any tabs. Even experimental packages
(v3.2.92+3.3.0rc1-1) did not remove tabs. I did a downgrade to that version to see
if I get my tabs in composed messages back but the bug is still there, so it seems that
this bug is caused by something else. As there are tons of kde libraries and packages
I really don't know what package is causing this. Any hint?

ciao, Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-wolk4.16s
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

Versions of packages kmail depends on:
ii  kdelibs4                  4:3.3.0-1.1    KDE core libraries
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                   1:3.4.1-7      GCC support library
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libkcal2                  4:3.3.0-2      KDE calendaring library
ii  libkdenetwork2            4:3.3.0-2      KDE Network library
ii  libkdepim1                4:3.3.0-2      KDE PIM library
ii  libkleopatra0             4:3.3.0-2      KDE GnuPG interface libraries
ii  libkpimidentities1        4:3.3.0-2      KDE PIM user identity information 
ii  libksieve0                4:3.3.0-2      KDE mail/news message filtering li
ii  libmimelib1               4:3.3.0-1      KDE mime library
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.5.0-7      PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3c102-mt             3:3.3.3-4      Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System Session Management
ii  libstdc++5                1:3.3.4-9      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  perl                      5.8.4-2        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.1.1-7    compression library - runtime

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