Bug#836613: debbugs: specifying 0 (“current message”) causes ‘summary’ to attempt to parse message header

Ben Finney <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Sep 2016 23:08:15 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.debbugs
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Package: debbugs
Severity: normal

The attached response came from ‘debbugs’ when I sent a message
<URL:https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358195;msg=33>
that contains a command “summary -1 0”.

According to the documentation for that command:

    The first non-pseudoheader/non-control paragraph of that message
    is parsed and set as the outlook of the bug which is displayed on
    the top of the bug report page.

    […] if a message number of 0 is given, the current message is used
    (that is, the message which was sent to [email protected]
    which contains the outlook control command).

    <URL:https://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control#summary>

I understand the documentation to imply that the referenced message
should have worked: It contained a <message number> value of “0”, and
the “first non-pseudoheader/non-control paragraph of that message” was
the summary text required.

The ‘debbugs’ server has evidently retrieved a completely different
text, some “Received” field from the message header. This fails to
meet the behaviour described in the documentation.

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