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commit 5fece42c45643abbdddcf9216e6c622276a4e146
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date: Tue Sep 1 00:14:05 2026 +0200
update changelog
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
commit 64c179b3ebf0650479954289a4e114ba6857cea8
Author: Edmund Lodewijks <edmund@proteamail.com>
Date: Mon Aug 31 12:06:45 2026 +0200
gen-itp: encode only the display name in the From: header
encode("MIME-Header", ...) was applied to the whole `Maintainer` string. This caused two issues.
1. The encoded-word swallows the `angle-addr`, so the generated `From:` line carries no address any parser can see. RFC 2047 section 5 allows an encoded-word in the `phrase` of an address, but nowhere inside an `addr-spec`, precisely because MTAs do not decode MIME before routing emails.
2. The `Maintainer` string is bytes, so `encode()` treats each byte as a character and a non-ASCII name comes out double-encoded: "Jörg" becomes "Jörg". (Note that the `Owner:` field four lines below already decodes it first.)
Pure-ASCII names were encoded too, which is legal but leaves the header unreadable for no gain (you can't just read an email on disk anymore, if you wanted to do that).
This patch adds `mime_encode_address()`, which:
- splits the phrase from the `angle-addr`,
- decodes to characters, and
- encodes the phrase only when it is not ASCII.
- an ASCII phrase containing RFC 5322 specials (dot, comma, colon...) is quoted instead, to keep it readable for the human eye (again, in case you check the raw email).
The thirteen ITPs I generated between 2026-08-26 and 2026-08-31 all had to have their From: corrected by hand before I could send them.
Closes: #1146308
commit 073a0ba972c73e07a2fef2a407d20462bca29dc4
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 20 00:12:22 2026 +0200
update changelog
Gbp-Dch: Ignore
commit aee029cbc6ef2d3897c404c387d65753d16c3a1e
Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 20 00:11:18 2026 +0200
dpt-fixup: let cme do the reformatting of debian/control again
to avoid changes in the sort order of fields.
Closes: #1133353
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