NAME¶

deb-email - Debian package email address format

SYNOPSIS¶

Näme "quoted, text" S. Surname <näme@exâmple.org>

DESCRIPTION¶

Email addresses as used for Debian package metadata in binary and source packages. These consist of a name, followed by at least one space, and then an email address.

The name is composed of one or more quoted (") or non-quoted parts. These parts can contain any UTF-8 character except for angle brackets (<>), double quotes ("), and control characters. A comma (,) is only allowed inside double quoted parts.

The email address is contained inside angle brackets (<>), and is composed of a local part separated by an at sign (@) followed by the domain part.

Both local and domain parts can contain any UTF-8 character except for angle brackets (<>), at sign (@) double quotes ("), space ( ), and control characters.

Note: A domain part with a single label is allowed but will emit a warning, as those domains are either for local hosts, or a TLD which are not supposed to receive mail.

Note: A domain part is expected to be encoded in UTF-8, and not in IDNA/Punycode, for readability and general handling reasons.

Multiple addresses must be separated with a comma.