bnewb...@robocracy.org writes ("Bug#852661: dgit: fails to fetch when
Maintainer has `,` in name"):
> I don't understand the original motivation for stripping comma-and-suffix
> though. At first I assumed it was to reduce to a single maintainer if
> there were multiple
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Ian Jackson wrote:
I don't think the git format permits commas here. After removing that
line and doing a fetch, please try `git fsck' ?
git doesn't complain. Re-running everything in sid, with the
search/replace line in dgit commented out:
Bryan Newbold writes ("Bug#852661: dgit: fails to fetch when Maintainer has `,`
in name"):
> Package: dgit
> Version: 2.14
> Severity: important
...
> I assume this line was added to prevent breakage where the comma would result
> in parsing as multiple email addres
Package: dgit
Version: 2.14
Severity: important
Hello!
When parsing a (debian) Maintainer field[0] for use as a git Author field (in
email format), dgit tries to strip out comma-separated suffixes; see this line
from clogp_authline (which still exists in version 3.9):
$author =~ s#,.*##ms;
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