Bug#857438: alpine: symlinked .pinerc not written to

Package: alpine Version: 2.20+dfsg1-7 Severity: normal Dearest Maintainer, The packaged version of Alpine does not want to write to .pinerc if that file already exists as a symlink (it writes happily if the symlinked file is copied to the ~/.pinerc location). This causes a bit of friction when

Bug#852661: dgit: fails to fetch when Maintainer has `,` in name

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;