> On 29 Jan 2026, at 1:04 PM, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> 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
