[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#877000: Bug#877000: mutt: not plain/text /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz

[Jari Aalto]

On 2017-09-28 11:47, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
| * Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> [2017-09-27 17:45 +0300]:
| 
| > Package: mutt
| > Version: 1.8.0-1
| > Severity: minor
| > 
| > The documentation, "Mutt manual" cannot be read with a text
| > editor as it appears not being plain/text.
| > 
| > Please supply plain/text file without any control characters embedded. This
| > allows SEARCH in editors and GREP to be used to find information.
| > 
| > CONTENT EXAMPLES:
| > 
| > Emacs: C-x C-f /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz
| > 
| >     The Mutt E-Mail Client
| > 
| >     Michael Elkins
| > 
| >        <[1]m^Hme^He@^H at c^Hcs^Hs.^H.h^Hhm^Hmc^Hc.^H.e^Hed^Hdu^Hu>
| > 
| >        version 1.8.0 (2017-02-23)
| > 
| >        _^HA_^Hb_^Hs_^Ht_^Hr_^Ha_^Hc_^Ht
| 
| I can read /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz directly with vim and
| emacs with no doubts. zgrep, zless and zmore are showing everything
| well. I can't reproduce either.

Here is test:

    $ dpkg -l | grep mutt
    ii  mutt 1.8.0-1 i386 (...)

    $ dpkg -L mutt | grep manual.txt
    /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz

    $ gzip -dc /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz | head -15 > mutt-extract.txt

    $ file mutt-extract.txt
    mutt-extract.txt: ASCII text, with overstriking

Notice "overstriking":

    $ nano mutt-extract.txt

    - - -

    The Mutt E-Mail Client

    Michael Elkins

       <[1]m^Hme^He@^H at c^Hcs^Hs.^H.h^Hhm^Hmc^Hc.^H.e^Hed^Hdu^Hu>

       version 1.8.0 (2017-02-23)

       _^HA_^Hb_^Hs_^Ht_^Hr_^Ha_^Hc_^Ht

       "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." -- me, circa 1995
	    __________________________________________________________________

       _^HT_^Ha_^Hb_^Hl_^He_^H _^Ho_^Hf_^H _^HC_^Ho_^Hn_^Ht_^He_^Hn_^Ht_^Hs

Jari