Bug#1146308: dpt-gen-itp: From: header wraps the whole address in an RFC 2047 encoded-word

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:15:43 +0200, Edmund Lodewijks wrote:

>While creating thirteen ITP messages over the last week, I noticed that
>`dpt gen-itp` emits a `From:` header in which the encoded-word covers the
>entire address, and not just the display name:
>
>    From: =?UTF-8?B?RWRtdW5kIExvZGV3aWprcyA8ZWRtdW5kQHByb3RlYW1haWwuY29tPg==?=

Ack, encoding the whole From: field is a bit silly.

>A second problem appears with a non-ASCII name. $changelog->{Maintainer} is a
>byte string, so encode() re-encodes it as though it were characters:

That's surprising, because this encoding stuff was added by a team 
member with an 'é' in their first name, and I'm sure they wouldn't 
have liked their name to be double-encoded.

But yay, maybe something has changed since then …

>Results:
>
>    Edmund Lodewijks <edmund at proteamail.com>  unchanged
>    Jörg Müller <j at example.org>               =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cmcgTcO8bGxlcg==?= <j at example.org>
>    Foo Bar Jr., Ltd <a at b.com>                "Foo Bar Jr., Ltd" <a at b.com>
>    gregoa at debian.org                         unchanged
>    <solo at example.com>                        unchanged

Thanks for the patch and especially for the test runs.

MR applied, will be in the next upload.

(And is available from now on for everybody running dpt from Git, cf.
https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/pkg-perl-tools/dpt-config.5.en.html 
)

Cheers,
gregor

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