Package: bugs.debian.org Severity: normal Dear BTS team,
when I have forwarded a bug report to an upstream bug tracker, mailing list or forum and I want to document this in the Debian BTS with the "forward" tag, I often get replies like "Processed with 3 errors" back from the BTS. The reason is that my mail client breaks lines if they are longer than 70 characters. Well, the string "forwarded 123456 " alone is 17 characters long and URLs pointing to forums, mailing lists or bug trackers are often long enough to case my mail client to break lines then. The BTS-control then receives a mail with an incomplete "forwarded" comand in the first line, an unkown command (i.e. the URL) in the second line and thus throws errors here. I suggest that if the "forwarded" command is incomplete on its line and the next line does not contain another valid command, than the next line should be concatenated to the line containing the "forwarded" command. Maybe this should also be applied to other commends which may accept longer strings as parameters. - Fabian PS: You could of course tell me to "fix" my mail client, but I find it very convenient to have automatic line breaks in mails (it improves the readability a lot) and it never causes problems, except for this special case of Debian BTS-control handling. ;) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (550, 'unstable'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
