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Bug#485705: lintian: doesn't properly detect comma in control file email address quoted strings



On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:35 +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  I'll leave this open against lintian, and we'll see what
happens when I upload...

-Adam
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