Re: Comma in Maintainer field

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Subject: Re: Comma in Maintainer field
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 18:26:47 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20180419063706.iw5dipf62yqcz3jk@an3as.eu> (Andreas Tille's message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2018 08:37:07 +0200")
References: <[🔎] 0d0ed463-dfb2-ace0-5fd9-772672ba8d9c@rolf.leggewie.biz> <[🔎] 2369130.YcAjvQKqO2@merkaba> <[🔎] 20180418095510.GF1711@belkar.wrar.name> <[🔎] 5AD75A21.8080502@fastmail.fm> <[🔎] 23255.23971.253689.782302@chiark.greenend.org.uk> <[🔎] 20180418165218.GI1711@belkar.wrar.name> <[🔎] 20180419063706.iw5dipf62yqcz3jk@an3as.eu>

Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:

> From my understanding the names in quotes should be parsed correctly,
> right?

Definitely not.  They will absolutely break with some tools.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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