Bug#686638: Bug#649220: ftp.debian.org: please allow for whitespace around "," when splitting Uploaders

2014-08-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Stuart Prescott , 2014-08-03, 00:24: I'm not sure whether Policy §5.6.3 and §5.6.2 is actually saying that you could naively split on "\s*,\s*" in any case -- is the maintainer's name allowed to contain commas and be quoted in an rfc822-compliant way? See bug #509935. (I should have mention

Bug#686638: Bug#649220: ftp.debian.org: please allow for whitespace around "," when splitting Uploaders

2014-08-02 Thread Stuart Prescott
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > python-debian does not parse Uploaders field correctly when separated > by commas and multiple spaces in control file > $ cat */debian/control | grep Uploaders > Uploaders: Foo , Bar > $ python > >>> from debian.debfile import Deb822 > >>> fields = Deb822(open('test