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Bug#523282: Re: Bug#523282: qa.debian.org: Email address in package overview is case-specific



On Apr 9, 2009 8:31pm, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> While not horribly useful under most circumstances, the mail standards
> actually specify that the left-hand side of an e-mail address is
> case-sensitive. Those are, per RFC 5322, actually two different e-mail
> addresses.

I wonder if there is any mileage in recommending that all email addresses be lowercase, maybe through a Lintian info message.

What about some possibility for the QA software to recognise multiple email addresses as belonging to the same person? Every DD that switches to using a @debian.org address must have this irritation.
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