Bug#965335: Lintian: missing complaining of Lintian

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Mechthilde,

On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 11:33 AM Mechtilde Stehmann
<mechtilde@debian.org> wrote:
>
> lintian didn't complain if Maintainers adress miss a ">" at the end n
> debian /control

We use the Perl module Email::Address::XS to parse the contact
information in package control files. Overall, we found the module
reliable (especially with respect to UTF-8, which can cause a lot of
problems).

You are right that it does not complain about the missing closing
bracket when the information is otherwise parsed correctly. I briefly
looked at the relevant RFC but did not arrive at a conclusion.

For now, I added a test case for that situation:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/8ea3d161006d3325d81d6205b15186637a2a63a9

Please share any documentation about valid and invalid email
addresses, if you have it. Thanks!

Kind regards
Felix Lechner