Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.427 (Entity 5.427) Subject: NOTICE file from RST source is missing line breaks X-RT-Original-Encoding: iso-8859-1 Content-Length: 287 It seems that the plain text output engine of sphinx-build does not properly handle line blocks, which we are using to force line breaks for some of the copyright statements. We'll need to either do some pre/post-processing, fix the output engine in question, our write our own engine.