Bug#485705: lintian: doesn't properly detect comma in control file email address quoted strings
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:10:16AM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 21:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > This problem is new with Uploaders; since Maintainer doesn't take a list,
> > it was never ambiguous. Commas in names have never worked for Uploaders
> > since the introduction of the feature so far as I know.
>
> I see. Does this mean that lintian is consistent with the uploading
> framework, and I will have trouble uploading?
I can't speak for dak, but yeah, chances are you will encounter much
more software in Debian that does something similar to "split /,/" with
the uploaders field.
While I actually support your view that this should be supported, the
reality is probably that it's not.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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