Comment 8 for bug 30358

Alexey: the state of the affairs is indicated in the bug status: it's been triaged and of high priority (along with another 100 of high priority bugs). Unfortunately, we lack the time to fix them all.

The solution you propose would break in a big number of other cases where this is useful, so I don't see any merit in going forward with it.

If you are willing to go with the solution as proposed in comment #6 (remove whitespace handling and keep newlines handling for submissions through web UI), do remember that Launchpad is open source and you can help yourself. Start at https://dev.launchpad.net/, and do feel welcome to ask any questions you want and I'd be more than happy to point people in the right direction (Note that this offer holds for everyone else as well :)