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Package: dpkg
Severity: serious
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
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Control: affects -1 + src:lintian
Version: 1.23.5
Hi Guillem,
Lintian’s test suite has started to fail with huge number of errors.
| dpkg-source: error: 'Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@unknown>, Jeroen van
Wolffelaar<[email protected]>,
| Frank <[email protected]>, Yama@gotchi, Josip, I am afraid of spam and think
this helps <no_spam_please AT debian.org>’ is
| not a valid email |address list
This looks like the consequence of latest dpkg upload.
| dpkg (1.23.5) unstable; urgency=medium
| .
| [ Guillem Jover ]
| * dpkg-source: Do not error out on empty fields. Closes: #1125985
| * Perl modules:
| - Dpkg::Email::Address: Do not construct invalid objects.
A large amount of test suite uses legacy tests and there’s even a
"malformed-contact” tag that lintian emits. Fixing all of this
is well, annoying since this is a large number.
OTOH I don’t understand the reasoning behind completely failing to build a
package due to one wrong email address.
The lintian tag of error severity combined with a dpkg warning of malformed
email address looks like a pretty good
check to me already.
Do you think dpkg can emit a warning here instead?
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Best,
Nilesh
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Version: 2.129.0
These are fixed in the latest upload (2.129.0) hence closing.
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Best,
Nilesh
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