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The problem was discussed on Debian-QA list. The discussion starts here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2023/12/msg00007.html
I opened this bug report to keep a record of the discussion in BTS.
There is one statement by Lucas Nussbaum[1] defending the current
situation:
> It has been like that for about 15 years. I'm not sure changing the API
> because you think is wrong is a good idea.
I do not consider strings injected into a database are comparable to
an API. The fact that this issue exists since 15 years does not mean
that it is the right way to do. Some bugs are just discovered after
that long time since the trigger for the issue might be quite rare.
I personally do not see any potential break of any application by
stripping names to be more easily parseable. I'd be happy if someone
could convince me otherwise by for instance describing applications that
are relying on different spellings of the very same name.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2023/12/msg00016.html
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