Bug#663659: lintian: Bug in Email Address Validation

[Christopher Vollick <0@psycoti.ca>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.5
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I built a local version of a package for myself (gst123) and included a
changelog entry.

When I ran debuild it got to lintian and I got this error:

E: gst123 changes: changed-by-address-malformed Christopher Vollick
<0@psycoti.ca>

First off, I don't think that's invalid.
Beyond my glossing over of the standard, though, I experimentally
changed it to <1@psycoti.ca> and <d@psycoti.ca> instead of 0, and those
did not trigger this error.

I expect that this is some edge case in the validation code, and it's
possible it effects only my my one-digit-that-is-zero address.  I still
consider it more than minor, since it's not really cosmetic, and I figure
I should report it, because maybe it's worse than I think.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.22-5
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-1
ii  diffstat                       1.55-2
ii  file                           5.10-1
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-5
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.25+b1
ii  libc-bin                       2.13-26
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.1.2
ii  libemail-valid-perl            0.187-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.91-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               1.2000-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.59-1
ii  locales                        2.13-26
ii  man-db                         2.6.1-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-7
ii  unzip                          6.0-5

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.1.2
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-1+b1
ii  libtext-template-perl  <none>
ii  man-db                 2.6.1-1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

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