Hey Andreas, For example, on a fresh exim4 install:
root@ben-test-2:/# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="12" VERSION="12 (bookworm)" VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"; root@ben-test-2:/# exim4 --version | grep "Exim version" Exim version 4.96 #2 built 28-Sep-2024 14:49:26 root@ben-test-2:/# grep -nPR /etc/exim4 -e "^\t " /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2120: }\ /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2121: {\\N[\\^]\\N}\ /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2122: {^^}\ /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2123: } /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:244: }\ /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:245: {\\N[\\^]\\N}\ /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:246: {^^}\ /etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:247: } I'm not seeing these files in the exim upstream source code ( https://github.com/Exim/exim), but they are in the Debian exim4 source code (https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4), 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? Ben On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 at 17:35, Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> wrote: > Control: severity -1 wishlist > > On 2025-03-17 Ben Raven <ben...@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 > -- > `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are > so grateful to you.' > `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' >
