Re: format of Maintainer: field
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 02:50:19PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 06:55:19PM +0200, Radovan Garabik wrote:
> > Is form of Maintainer: field really unspecified?
> > And if so, should it be tightened more strictly?
>
> It was in the Packaging Manual. It wasn't quite rfc822 format, there
> was a procedure defined for using the maintainer field as a mail address.
>
any reason it is not in Policy?
anyway, it explicitly says format should be Name <e-mail>,
even mentions that Name can contain "." which is
against RFC-822 syntax, and debian programs must be able
to cope with this.
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