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| From | Nilesh Patra <nilesh@patra.systems> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.dpkg |
| Subject | Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address |
| Date | 2026-01-29 16:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <MiChH-eeXd-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <Mi18t-dOXy-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <MitHr-e939-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <MiuNb-e9OQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <Mi18t-dOXy-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <MiuNb-e9OQ-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
> On 29 Jan 2026, at 1:04 PM, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 2026-01-28 at 16:51:42 -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote: >> I'm not sure I understand what a "nationally encoded email" is and >> how using a non-ascii email leads to creating a non-compatible >> .changes? Basically, if you use email like "Foo Bar <föo@bår.org>” (which guillem mentioned in [1]) the .changes file preserves this. Lintian sees this and the uf8 parsing fails here, saying this is “nationally” encoded string. > So, unless I'm missing something, I'd still consider closing this one? Mh… since lintian had a check for this and dpkg used to allow ansi escaped emails in .changes, I don’t understand how this is not a regression. I’d agree that this is an edge case, though. If you however feel like closing this bug report, I don’t have a problem. But we ought to mention somewhere that Maintainers/Uploaders Email needs to be a standardised address. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1126502#14
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Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2026-01-28 01:00 +0100
Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address Nilesh Patra <nilesh@patra.systems> - 2026-01-28 01:30 +0100
Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 07:30 +0100
Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2026-01-29 08:40 +0100
Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address Nilesh Patra <nilesh@patra.systems> - 2026-01-29 16:40 +0100
Bug#1126502: dpkg does not accept non-ascii chars in email address Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2026-01-30 00:00 +0100
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