Jakub Wilk <[email protected]> writes: > I propose the following simple solution to this bug: > - Let's forget about RFC 822/5322 compatibility, as it would introduce > only needless complexity. > - Let's allow any punctuation characters in maintainer names and e-mail > addresses *except* "<" and ">".
> This way comma is completely disambiguated: it splits the field if and > only it's preceded by the ">" character. I.e. you can use the following > Perl regex to split the field: /\>\K\s*,\s*/. Oh, hm, yeah, that would work. >> Currently, the only way to express such a name that works with our >> existing tools is to drop the comma, since several programs blindly >> split on commas when parsing the field. > Let's fix them, then. :) I volunteer to fix lintian and dd-list. Do you > know any other tools that parse Uploaders? dak, of course, but it sounds from your message like it's already doing the right thing. The PTS and DDPO -- I'm not sure what gets that data into those systems. UDD? I think your solution sounds excellent. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
