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

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On 2025-03-17 Ben Raven <benahr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
[...]

Hello,

are you talking about the sourcecode or some specific file in a binary
package?

If this is about the source code then I think this is the wrong place to
discuss this, since we are not going to reformat the upstream source in
Debian.

cu Andreas
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