Bug#401452: Info received (Bug#401452: Standardize syntax of the name in the Maintainer control field)

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Bug#401452: Info received (Bug#401452: Standardize syntax of the name in the Maintainer control field)"):
> 2.  [... ]]In particular, the current
>    specification doesn't require people with non-ASCII names to add extra
>    punctuation around their name, which would feel icky, at least to me.

Yes.  Hmm.

While I was writing my previous proposal it occurred to me that maybe
we should follow git instead.  I tried to find a specification of the
syntax of the "author" and "committer" and "tagger" header lines in
the relevant git objects, but failed.

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