Bug#2424: diald maintainer field enclosed in double quotes
Package: diald
Version: 0.11-3
The Maintainer field's value is enclosed in " characters. This causes
problems for various kinds of automatic processing for bug reports.
For example, I would usually send minor bug reports of this kind to
debian-bugs-quiet, but in this case the message to the maintainer
would bounce because
"Giuseppe Vacanti <Giuseppe.Vacanti@DeSelby.xs4all.nl>"
would be interpreted as a local user on my system (one whose local
address matches the string between the quotes).
Furthermore, the extended description starts with a blank line
(represented by a `.').
chiark:~> dpkg -I /myrddin-anon/debian/development/binary-i386/*/diald*.deb
old debian package, version 0.939000.
size 68491 bytes: control archive= 1255, main archive= 67222.
92 bytes, 5 lines conffiles
686 bytes, 19 lines control
1066 bytes, 36 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
209 bytes, 17 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh
Package: diald
Priority: standard
Section: net
Maintainer: "Giuseppe Vacanti <Giuseppe.Vacanti@DeSelby.xs4all.nl>"
Version: 0.11-3
Depends: netstd, ppp(>2.2), image(>1.2.13), netbase(>1.23)
Suggests: mail-reader
Optional: expect
Description: dial on deman daemon for PPP and SLIP.
.
The purpose of diald is to make it transparently appear that you
have a permanent connection to a remote site (usually your provider).
.
You MUST have SLIP devices in the kernel in order to use diald, even if
you only plan to use only PPP connections. Of course, you will need PPP
devices as well.
.
Diald needs a program like "chat" or "expect" to actually dial.
Sorry, "dip" cannot be used.
You have mail in /usr/spool/mail/ijackson
chiark:~>
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