On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 12:30:23AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 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. :)
That is very right indeed :)
So the part about the Uploader field ("5.6.3. `Uploaders'") probably
needs changing, where it says:
The format is the same as that of the Maintainer tag, and
multiple entries should be comma separated.
I started writing a possible amended text, but I stopped not knowing if
commas are to be allowed within double quotes (as in "Adam C. Powell,
IV" <...>) or to be disallowed altogether.
Ciao,
Enrico
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