<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hey Andreas,<div><br></div><div>For example, on a fresh exim4 install:</div><div><br></div><div>root@ben-test-2:/# cat /etc/os-release<br>PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)"<br>NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"<br>VERSION_ID="12"<br>VERSION="12 (bookworm)"<br>VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm<br>ID=debian<br>HOME_URL="<a href="https://www.debian.org/" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/</a>"<br>SUPPORT_URL="<a href="https://www.debian.org/support" target="_blank">https://www.debian.org/support</a>"<br>BUG_REPORT_URL="<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/</a>"<br>root@ben-test-2:/# exim4 --version | grep "Exim version"<br>Exim version 4.96 #2 built 28-Sep-2024 14:49:26<br>root@ben-test-2:/# grep -nPR /etc/exim4 -e "^\t "<br>/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2120: }\<br>/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2121: {\\N[\\^]\\N}\<br>/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2122: {^^}\<br>/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2123: }<br>/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:244: }\<br>/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:245: {\\N[\\^]\\N}\<br>/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:246: {^^}\<br>/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:247: }</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not seeing these files in the exim upstream source code (<a href="https://github.com/Exim/exim" target="_blank">https://github.com/Exim/exim</a>), but they are in the Debian exim4 source code (<a href="https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4" target="_blank">https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4</a>), which also contains many more lines beginning with a tab followed by spaces. Apologies if this isn't the right place to be reporting this; if so, where would be?</div><div><br></div><div>Ben</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 at 17:35, Andreas Metzler <<a href="mailto:ametzler@bebt.de">ametzler@bebt.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Control: severity -1 wishlist<br>
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On 2025-03-17 Ben Raven <<a href="mailto:benahr@gmail.com" target="_blank">benahr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Package: exim4<br>
> Version: 4.96-15+deb12u6<br>
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> The version of exim4 installed with apt contains 20 lines that begin with a<br>
> tab character followed by one or more spaces. This breaks alignment in text<br>
> editors when using a tab size other than 8 and makes line by line file<br>
> manipulation trickier. Replacing all tabs with eight spaces fixes this.<br>
<br>
> The Debian exim4 repo contains around a thousand lines with a tab character<br>
> followed by at least one space, so I haven't been able to track down the<br>
> source of this. I believe these tabs are also all standing in for eight<br>
> spaces.<br>
[...]<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
are you talking about the sourcecode or some specific file in a binary<br>
package?<br>
<br>
If this is about the source code then I think this is the wrong place to<br>
discuss this, since we are not going to reformat the upstream source in<br>
Debian.<br>
<br>
cu Andreas<br>
-- <br>
`What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are<br>
so grateful to you.'<br>
`I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'<br>
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