Email text for merge proposals gets re-wrapped.

[Henning Eggers]

This is an annoying bug because it makes merge proposals hard to read.

When I create a merge proposal using "bzr propose-merge" I use my local editor to create the mp description. Naturally, that is configured to wrap at 78 (and am I ;-) and as far as I can tell, I am not the only one. But when the description reaches the mp in the UI, the lines have been re-wrapped (but not re-flowed!) to a shorter line width (72?). The result looks like this:
https://code.launchpad.net/~henninge/launchpad/bug-720673-import-origin/+merge/50157

Sure, I can remember to wrap at 72 lines but why that short line length in the first place?

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

72 is a typical email limit: 72 columns + space for three levels of
"> " quoting.

One possible set of rules to follow could be:

- Don't wrap/reflow text before storing in the database.

- For displaying or emailing, only wrap/reflow lines of greater than
  78 columns.

- When required, wrap/reflow to 72 columns.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

Do we need to wrap at all other than when sending notifications?
Browsers are not email clients.

[Robert Collins (lifeless)]

I suspect this is easy. IMBW.