DEP3 and even more incompatible "RFC-2822" formats

[Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth@gmail.com>]

I took my time reading DEP3 (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/) and
notice they introduce an new "RFC-2822-like" format. This time they
introduce an ambiguous rules where either the Description or the
Subject field and contain verbatim data (which one is uncertain to me,
the text implies one of them, but says Description first, and Subject
later). This will off course require an specific parser as a parser
for the debcontrol format can't be used due to this rule. Including
this with the policy that only debian/control can contain comments
(policy 5.2) and that DEP5 (http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/)
introduces a "superset of RFC2822".
Wouldn't it now be a good time to formally define a format that can be
parsed with a generic parser, instead of continuing the invention of
additional RFC-2822++ formats?

On an other note, the DEP3 verbatim data specifier doesn't define any
limits on what data it can contain, so the content "...as you can see
in the following\nbug: blablabla" is ambiguous as best.

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/Carl Fürstenberg <azatoth@gmail.com>