On Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:18:01 -0700, Felix Lechner wrote: > Lintian now uses standard modules to parse email addresses. An > existing check for invalid hosts was recently re-implemented with > Email::Address::XS and Data::Validate:Domain. What is the Perl Team's > plan for Data::Validate::Domain? I guess we don't have any specific plans as we don't maintain the package :) % apt-cache --no-all-versions show libdata-validate-domain-perl Package: libdata-validate-domain-perl Version: 0.10-1 Installed-Size: 63 Maintainer: Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> […] Cc'ing formorer, and leaving the rest for context: > Our code works well, but today we received an unexpected bug report > (#964381). On the surface, Lintian was right. The email address was > bogus. > > Unfortunately, the address was bogus because the TLD was invalid, > while we tried to turn off that feature. [1] Many more TLDs have been > added since the last upload of Data::Validate::Domain in 2010. > > It turns out that the feature domain_disable_tld_validation we tried > to use is not yet in Debian: > > 0.13 2016-08-21 > - The option domain_disable_tld_validation was added to allow disabling > TLD validation. This may be useful if you need to check domains with new > gTLDs that have not yet been added to Net::Domain::TLD. > Implemented by Greg > Oschwald. GitHub #8. > > Very few packages rely on Data::Validate::Domain, although here it > works better than some alternatives. What is the Perl Team's plan for > the module, please? > > If you intend to provide Data::Validate::Domain going forward, would > you please upload a new version when you get a chance? Thank you! > > Kind regards > Felix Lechner > > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/checks/fields/mail-address.pm#L109 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. https://info.comodo.priv.at -- Debian Developer https://www.debian.org : :' : OpenPGP fingerprint D1E1 316E 93A7 60A8 104D 85FA BB3A 6801 8649 AA06 `. `' Member VIBE!AT & SPI Inc. -- Supporter Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Joan Baez: Gracias a la vida
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