On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 09:19:19AM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote: > > The following message, which bears "User-Agent: pgcommitfest", > > > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20160202164101.1291.30526.pgcf@coridan.postgresql.org > > > > added spaces after commas in its subject line, compared to the subject > > line of > > its In-Reply-To message. > > > > new subject line: Re: Add generate_series(date, date) and > > generate_series(date, date, integer) > > previous subject line: Re: Add generate_series(date,date) and > > generate_series(date,date,integer) > > > > I see no way to manually alter the subject line from the > > commitfest.postgresql.org review UI. Is commitfest.postgresql.org > > initiating > > this change internally? > > > > That is weird. > > The CF app certainly doesn't do that intentionally - it copies it from the > archives. And if I look in the db on the cf app, it has the subject without > the space as the field that it copied :O > > The code is line 355-358 at: > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=pgcommitfest2.git;a=blob;f=pgcommitfest/commitfest/views.py;h=b4f19b2db470e5269943418b2402ca9ddfff0dff;hb=fec3b2431730c131a206a170a99a7610cdbacc6b#l355 > > the "subject" field in the db that we copy does not have the spaces... I > honestly have no idea where they are coming from :O I'm guessing it must be > something internally in the python libraries that create the MIME.
So it is. The problem happens when email.mime.text.MIMEText wraps the subject line; see attached test program.
Ouch. So that's basically a bug in the python standard libraries :( It looks a lot like this one, doesn't it? https://bugs.python.org/issue25257
> Have you > seen this with any other messages, that you can recall, or just this one?
Just this one. However, no other hackers subject line since 2015-01-01 contains a comma followed by something other than a space.
I wonder in that case if it's worth trying to do something about that in our code, or just leave it be.