Your message dated Mon, 11 May 2015 13:28:30 +0500 with message-id <20150511082830.ga2...@belkar.wrar.name> and subject line Closing has caused the Debian Bug report #160827, regarding Standardize syntax of the name in the Maintainer control field to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.2.2 Severity: wishlist Hello, enrico> Just when I wanted to split Maintainer fields my commas, I stumble on Maintainer: Adam C. Powell, IV <hazel...@debian.org> enrico> Now I'll just split Uploader: gfields by commas liw> enrico, hmm, should the Maintainer field not be an rfc822 compatible e-mail address spec? enrico> liw: I'll check the policy liw> hmm, the policy only mentions a problem with periods enrico> liw: and only the mail address seems to be RFC822 Section 5.6.2. `Maintainer' says: The package maintainer's name and email address. The name should 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; a program using this field as an address must check for this and correct the problem if necessary (for example by putting the name in round brackets and moving it to the end, and bringing the email address forward). Now, the field "Adam C. Powell, IV <hazel...@debian.org>" seems to be legal according to current policy. However, later in "5.6.3. `Uploaders'" the policy says: The format is the same as that of the Maintainer tag, and multiple entries should be comma separated. This would imply that commas should not be used in the Maintainer field. This is not a big problem for me now, since I can work around the issue by using two different functions to handle Maintainer and Uploaders, one that does not try to split on commas and the other that does. However, this issue seems to require a little clarification. Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-686 Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---The current Policy (since 3.8.1.0) says "All control files must be encoded in UTF-8." and the current practice is to use UTF-8 in Maintainer: field values. -- WBR, wRARsignature.asc
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