On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:29:20AM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> the mbox file is missing gotten with `bts show --mbox 612685` is missing the
> message [1] as an extra message. It is only attached to the notification
> message from the Debian BTS. Since the message can be downloaded seperately
> too [2], it should in my opinion also be included separately in the mbox
> file although that means doubling the data. But the original report is also
> included twice.

We specifically download the "maintainer mbox" since it includes the
control messages and the people-generated messages.  As you say, the
message is already there so why does it need to be downloaded
separately?

> The HTML version – which also gets downloaded when using `--mbox` (?)
> – does not show that behavior.

I'm not sure why we do that aside from not complicating the code even
more that it already is.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <james...@debian.org>

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