Bug#401452: Info received (Bug#401452: Standardize syntax of the name in the Maintainer control field)
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 09:38:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
> Before we make changes here, I think we need to understand the blast
> radius. Maybe someone can do some work in UDD to figure out how many
> packages would be affected if we were to tighten up the syntax here?
>
> Requiring quoting for commas (and any other reserved RFC 5322 punctuation)
> makes sense to me, since that's really going to break otherwise if one
> attempts to use Maintainer in the To field of an email message. I'm a bit
> less willing to require non-ASCII be quoted; all of the control fields are
> specified as being UTF-8 at this point, and I feel like most email sending
> libraries should be able to cope with UTF-8 in the name even if RFC 5322
> still requires weird escaping. But maybe that belief is too optimistic.
For what is worth, packages.debian.org and the BTS send email to the
package maintainer according to the Maintainer field.
They do not support multiple email addresses.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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