Launchpad itself

mail word wrapping breaks urls and other words

Bug #28649 reported by Paul Sladen
106
This bug affects 13 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Malone, the bug-tracking component of Launchpad keeps subscribers informed about the status of a bug by emailing them updates.

If a URL appears in this email that is longer than $length character (seen with 75) then the URL is word-wrapped, making it inconvient and hard to click on the link, eg:

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/acpi-
support_0.50-0ubuntu1.debdiff

The word-wrapping algorithm should make an exception for "long words" where the word starts with "(f|ht)tps?:"

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Related to bug 2804.

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 28649] Malone word-wraps URLs when sending out emails

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:08:31AM -0000, Paul Sladen wrote:
> If a URL appears in this email that is longer than $length character
> (seen with 75) then the URL is word-wrapped, making it inconvient and
> hard to click on the link, eg:
>
> http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/bugs/acpi-
> support_0.50-0ubuntu1.debdiff
>
> The word-wrapping algorithm should make an exception for "long words"
> where the word starts with "(f|ht)tps?:"

Yes, it should. Long words are usually not wrapped, but they seem to be
wrapped if they contain a '-'. I'll take a look at how to fix it.

    status confirmed
    assignee bjornt

Björn Tillenius (bjornt)
Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → bjornt
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote : Re: Malone word-wraps URLs when sending out emails

If you happen to use the textwrap module from the standard Python library, then this might be of interest to you: textwrap in Python 2.3 wraps URLs that contain hyphens, while textwrap in Python 2.4 doesn't.

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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

This is not a malone specific problem. After discussing with Curtis, he explained to me that all our emails are wrapped using the same wrapping utility hence moving to -foundations.

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
summary: - Malone word-wraps URLs when sending out emails
+ Launchpad word-wraps URLs when sending out emails
Björn Tillenius (bjornt)
Changed in launchpad-foundations:
assignee: Björn Tillenius (bjornt) → nobody
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Chris Jones (cmsj) wrote : Re: Launchpad word-wraps URLs when sending out emails

This also seems to affect team invitation emails

Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: bugs questions
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
tags: added: teams
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
Changed in launchpad:
importance: Medium → Low
Robert Collins (lifeless)
summary: - Launchpad word-wraps URLs when sending out emails
+ mail word wrappping breaks urls and other words
summary: - mail word wrappping breaks urls and other words
+ mail word wrapping breaks urls and other words
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