Re: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-09-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Jonathan Yu wrote: 22:02:40 rra jawnsy: I don't think we say that explicitly, but RFC 5322 requires it and I can't imagine ever not enforcing that. Although you should check with the dpkg maintainers to be sure. Could we/should we make the Debian Policy more

Re: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-09-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: On Sat, 25 Sep 2010, Jonathan Yu wrote: 22:02:40 rra jawnsy: I don't think we say that explicitly, but RFC 5322 requires it and I can't imagine ever not enforcing that. Although you should check with the dpkg maintainers to be sure. Could

Re: Names of Fields in Control Files

2010-09-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 01:35:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : Raphael Hertzog hert...@debian.org writes: I'm certainly OK with policy requiring field names to be ASCII. I think that's probably the right thing to do. Dear all, how about simply paraphrasing the RFC 822/5832, which our