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

[Jari Aalto]

On 2017-09-28 15:33, Jari Aalto wrote:
| 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

Likewise display with:

    $ emacs --version
    GNU Emacs 24.5.1

    $ emacs -Q -nw mutt-extract.txt

Jari