Bug#962277: debian-policy: Maintainer address: move away from RFC822 to RFC5322 + RFC6532
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:35:23PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:23:11PM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> > > 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").
>
> > Are there packages actually using the obsolete syntax ? Can this be
> > checked by Lintian ?
>
> Running Lintian on the whole archive is costly.
Sure. But a lintian test for this is probably required if we are going
to add it to policy.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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