Bug#962277: debian-policy: Maintainer address: move away from RFC822 to RFC5322 + RFC6532

[Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:23:11PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> 
> 5.6.2 Maintainer currently states:
> 
> +---
> | The package maintainer’s name and email address. The name must come
> | first, then the email address inside angle brackets <> (in RFC822
> | format).
> |
> | If the maintainer’s name contains a full stop then the whole field
> | will not work directly as an email address due to a misfeature in the
> | syntax specified in RFC822
> +---
> 
> There is an updated version (RFC 5322) that should be used instead. 
> Notably RFC 5322 is more restrictive on the local part (whitespace and
> escape sequences are no longer allowed except as obsolete syntax).
> 
> Furthermore RFC 6532 extends RFC 5322 and allows non-ascii-UTF-8 in
> local parts (and other places).  That should probably be allowed as
> well.
> 
> So, Policy should probably:
>  - Refer to RFC 5322.
>  - Forbid the obsolete syntax (RFC 5322, Section 4 "Obsolete Syntax").

Hello Ansgar,

Are there packages actually using the obsolete syntax ? Can this be
checked by Lintian ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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