Bug#888988: reportbug: Retrieved base64 messages aren't decoded
On 14 Feb 2019:
> control: tags -1 unreproducible moreinfo
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> On 2 Feb 2017 Scott Leggett wrote:
> > The same thing occurs when saving a bug report to disk if the bug report
> > contains a non-ascii character - it is saved as base64 and then is
> > rejected by the bug tracking system if you try to send it later because
> > the first line doesn't begin with "Package: ".
>
> A small test[1] shows that the BTS is able to deal with base64-encoded
> mail just fine. So there is probably no bug here, unless we can still
> find one -
>
> Do you have more information on mails generated by reportbug that were
> rejected by the BTS? What method do you use to "send later" reports
> saved by reportbug?
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868155#17
Ping?
If there is no more information, then I think we can close this bug.
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