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 addresses, but I could be wrong. Removing the
> above line allowed the full Maintainer string to be passed through for me. I
> don't understand the original motivation well enough to propose a patch.

I don't think the git format permits commas here.  After removing that
line and doing a fetch, please try `git fsck' ?

I think the fix to this will be rather more complicated.

Ian.

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