Bug#568230: bugs.debian.org: "forwarded" tags should gracefully ignore line breaks

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:09:22 -0800 Don Armstrong wrote:
>> On Wed, 03 Feb 2010, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > The reason is that my mail client breaks lines if they are longer
> > than 70 characters.
> 
> If your mail client is unable to send messages with long lines, your
> mail client is fundamentally broken.
> 
> If you don't want to fix your MUA, use the bts command line tools
> instead.

Could this sentiment probably get reconsidered?

I filed this bug more than 12 years ago, and just today I got bitten by 
this again when I sent a mail to the Debian BTS containing a "forwarded" 
control command. I have sent this from a Windows PC using the roundcube 
webmail client, which apparently also insists to add line breaks to keep 
a certain line length in text-only mails. So, this time I had no chance 
to use the "bts" command lne tool, and I find it anachronistic to refer 
people to use such tools in times when e-mails are sent via webmailers 
or mobile phones.

Thanks,

  - Fabian