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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,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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