Bug#1100700: exim4 uses a mix of tabs and spaces within individual lines

Ben Raven benahr at gmail.com
Mon Mar 17 15:00:21 GMT 2025


Package: exim4
Version: 4.96-15+deb12u6

The version of exim4 installed with apt contains 20 lines that begin with a
tab character followed by one or more spaces. This breaks alignment in text
editors when using a tab size other than 8 and makes line by line file
manipulation trickier. Replacing all tabs with eight spaces fixes this.

The Debian exim4 repo contains around a thousand lines with a tab character
followed by at least one space, so I haven't been able to track down the
source of this. I believe these tabs are also all standing in for eight
spaces.

Ben Raven
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