On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 07:56:46AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
I don't know if in practice the various implementations are "close enough" for the purposes of the maintainer/uploader fields in the control file. However, there is a high likelihood that enough of them are different enough to be problematic from the perspective of a heterogeneous tooling infrastructure.
Yes, it would probably be best to specify a restricted subset of RFC822. Luckily most of the work for that was done in RFC2822, and it would probably be sufficient to specify RFC2822 "mailbox" syntax with no "obsolete" elements. Multiple mailboxes can be listed with comma delimiters. Then if someone wants to get really creative with their comments and routing syntax, just file a bug.
Mike Stone