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  • Bug#1106816: allow commands to be broken over multiple lines with a \

    From Richard Lewis@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 30 01:10:01 2025
    Package: debbugs
    Version: 2.6.2
    Severity: wishlist

    Hi,

    could you make the bts support a \ as a continuation character so
    commands can be split over lines?

    some software wrap long lines at spaces, which makes it impossible to
    use commands like "subject" or "forwarded" with long arguments

    eg from gmail it is not possible to mark a bug in a native package as 'forwarded' to a salsa MR, as gmail will break the line before the url (debian's default exim config also rejects emails with very long
    lines, this is recommended in some RFC)


    eg

    subject NNNNN \
    this is a very long subject that is broken over lines for\
    readability


    thanks

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  • From Bill Allombert@21:1/5 to Richard Lewis on Fri May 30 10:20:01 2025
    On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:06:00AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
    Package: debbugs
    Version: 2.6.2
    Severity: wishlist

    Hi,

    could you make the bts support a \ as a continuation character so
    commands can be split over lines?

    some software wrap long lines at spaces, which makes it impossible to
    use commands like "subject" or "forwarded" with long arguments

    eg from gmail it is not possible to mark a bug in a native package as 'forwarded' to a salsa MR, as gmail will break the line before the url (debian's default exim config also rejects emails with very long
    lines, this is recommended in some RFC)

    exim limit is 998 characters which should be more than sufficient.

    Could you send an email from gmail to this bug log with an example of use
    of \ so that we see if this could actually work ?

    Thanks!

    At some point GMail and GMail users should be made to pay for the work they inflict on others.

    Cheers,
    --
    Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

    Imagine a large red swirl here.

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  • From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to Richard Lewis on Fri May 30 11:00:01 2025
    On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:06:00AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
    (debian's default exim config also rejects emails with very long
    lines, this is recommended in some RFC)

    Exim does this so that it doesnt accept messages that it probably can't deliver. It is better to reject such messages than losing them.

    Greetings
    Marc

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  • From Richard Lewis@21:1/5 to Bill Allombert on Mon Jun 2 19:40:01 2025
    On Fri, 30 May 2025 at 09:09, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:

    On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:06:00AM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:

    could you make the bts support a \ as a continuation character so
    commands can be split over lines?

    Could you send an email from gmail to this bug log with an example of use
    of \ so that we see if this could actually work ?

    As stated in the original email the syntax i was hoping could work is:

    subject NNNNN \
    this is a very long subject that is broken over lines for\
    readability

    which would then be treated as if the user had typed

    subject NNNN this is a very long subject that is broken over lines for readability

    ie when reading a command, if the line ends with a \, remove it and
    treat the next line as part of the command
    even if you only allowed one use of \ per command it would help

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