Bug#401452: Please clarify the format of the maintainer address to use in Maintainer: and Uploader:

[Josip Rodin <joy@debbugs.entuzijast.net>]

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 05:49:23PM +0000, Enrico Zini wrote:
>  enrico> Just when I wanted to split Maintainer fields my commas, I
>          stumble on Maintainer: Adam C. Powell, IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

There is no reason to split Maintainer fields, because they should be
nothing to split.

> This is not a big problem for me now, since I can work around the issue
> by using two different functions to handle Maintainer and Uploaders, one
> that does not try to split on commas and the other that does.

You should probably have two different functions anyway, because if you
encountered a Maintainer field with two values, that would be illegal. :)

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