On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:35:54PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:35:23PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 03:23:11PM +0200, Ansgar wrote: > > > There is an updated version (RFC 5322) that should be used instead. > > > Notably RFC 5322 is more restrictive on the local part (whitespace and > > > escape sequences are no longer allowed except as obsolete syntax). > > > > > > Furthermore RFC 6532 extends RFC 5322 and allows non-ascii-UTF-8 in > > > local parts (and other places). That should probably be allowed as > > > well. > > > > > > So, Policy should probably: > > > - Refer to RFC 5322. > > > - Forbid the obsolete syntax (RFC 5322, Section 4 "Obsolete Syntax"). > > > Are there packages actually using the obsolete syntax ? Can this be > > checked by Lintian ? > > Running Lintian on the whole archive is costly.
Sure. But a lintian test for this is probably required if we are going to add it to policy. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
