Re: "family name, personal name" in devel/people

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:06:59PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> --- people.pl.orig	Thu Jan 30 08:06:12 2003
> +++ people.pl	Thu Jan 30 07:59:51 2003
> @@ -172,9 +172,6 @@
>  		elsif ($maintainer =~ /Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a\s+<(.+)>/o) {
>  			$lastname = 'Fernandez-Sanguino Pe&ntilde;a'; $firstname = 'Javier'; $email = $1;
>  		}
> -		elsif ($maintainer =~ /KELEMEN Peter <(.+)>/io) {
> -			$lastname = 'Kelemen'; $firstname = 'Peter'; $email = $1;
> -		}
>  		elsif ($maintainer =~ /J\.H\.M\.? Dassen \(Ray\) <(.+)>/o) {
>  			$lastname = 'Dassen'; $firstname = 'Ray J.H.M.'; $email = $1;
>  		}
> @@ -232,66 +229,18 @@
....

Matt, this should fine but is this really what you want to do.  If we
use a rule "all caps word makes surname", may be this patch is shorter.

Just wondering .... I thought programming is all about "generalization"
of phenomena into a simpler rules....
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