Bug#485705: lintian: doesn't properly detect comma in control file email address quoted strings
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 08:00:31PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> An email address in a control field, e.g. Uploaders, should work with a
> comma in a quoted string, such as of the form:
> "Smith, John" <john.smith@gmail.com>
> See for example RFC822 Appendix A.1.3.
>
> Unfortunately, lintian treats it as separate addresses
> "Smith,
> and
> John" <john.smith@gmail.com>
> resulting in false positives for NMU and a bunch of related tests.
Yeah, we really should use a real parser module for this stuff instead
of "split /,/"
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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